Mark Shea has a very interesting post on the connection between the SCOTUS Lawrence decision and the war in Iraq. It is a complicated argument to reproduce but basically Mark says that Lawrence ignored the dangerous constitutional precedent it was setting in order to attempt a good. He then connects this same mindset with pro-war [...]
It was bound to happen with the recent Lawrence decision and the subject of gay marriage being blogged about. It seems Our friends Derbyshire and Sullivan have gotten into another dust up. By dust up I mean Sullivan has written a scathing critique of Derbyshire’s latest completely non-pc article. Derbyshire’s article posits Derbyshire’s law: Any [...]
So what exactly is one to make of all this Harry Potter mania? At first I thought I would capitalize on its popularity by starting a book club. That went over like a lead balloon (Potter won but participation was not exactly gangbusters). Oh well, I thought I will just read the book and post [...]