Category Archives: General

I have been more than a little surprised at the intensity of the conservative response to the Terry Schiavo case, especially from a bunch of people I had always considered to be reasonable, like Mark Steyn, Jonah Goldberg, Peggy Noonan, … Continue reading →

Posted by Andy Up to now, I had considered liberal fears of theocratic intrusion into public policy overblown, even a tad hysterical. But the Schiavo case gives me pause. Not only the lunatics like Randall Terry parading outside the hospice, … Continue reading →

I have been relieved of the necessity of commenting on the Terry Schiavo case by Christopher Hitchens, than whom no one has or could write a more viciously hilarious summing up. The opening paragraph of Easter Charade, his article in … Continue reading →

Very funny article in the SF Chronicle today about what a bummer it is, all this democracy catching on in the Middle East. It’s making it hard to organize anti-war demonstrations. The article doesn’t intend to be funny, but I … Continue reading →

Posted by Andy To paraphrase Lord Acton, all political money tends to corrupt; absolute money corrupts absolutely. And of course you and the loathsome Ralph Nader are right: Big money is a distorting influence on the political economy. But alas, … Continue reading →

This article at Policy Review is an illuminating treatise on the death, not only of God, but of belief and faith in general, and its deathly substitute, the hidden ideology of “tolerance”. It is an article, appositely, about the decline … Continue reading →

Political polorization may be the fashionable meme, but sweet, bipartisan fellowship still reigns in the arenas that matter. The conventional liberal wisdom about free markets and governmental regulation, is that unfettered free markets need to be reined in by the … Continue reading →

I’ve been learning a little bit about the music business from working on Candace Corrigan’s fabulous new web radio show and podcasting site, The Nashville Nobody Knows, and it’s been quite an eye opener. If you’re in the music business, … Continue reading →

Jeff makes a good point in response to the previous post, and I agree with him completely: I didn’t intend my comments as criticism, only as a warning against premature triumphalism. Stirring this pot has the potential to make things … Continue reading →

I wrote my brother Jeff this email: So what do you say? Are you taking the party line that the extraordinary events in Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Palestine have nothing to do with the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, or, … Continue reading →