(via my friend Ray Lehman) comes a heartwarming story from the heartland itself.
The lede:
A West Virginia man found wearing women’s underwear and standing over a goat’s carcass told police he was high on . . . → Read More: To the Place I Belong
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The Washington Post doesn’t know who actually pulled the trigger on Bin Laden, but that doesn’t stop them from priming you with a fantasy about him anyway. He’ll be ripped,” says the author of the best-selling autobiography “ Rogue Warrior .” “He’s got a lot of upper-body strength. Long arms. Thin waist. Flat tummy.” Remember sugar kills you. . . . → Read More: He Smells Like Gasoline and Victory Too Matt Yglesias mourns the fact that catching the bad guy somehow means we’re less secure than the day before, and goes on to make an important point: Whatever it is that explains why we don’t have constant truck bomb attacks on the streets of Washington it has nothing to do with building security at second-tier federal agencies. Yes. . . . → Read More: Threat Levels Always Go Up Online sportswriting pioneer, Bill Simmons is opening a new sports-and-pop culture shop under the ESPN umbrella, called “Grantland.” He’s being joined by essayist Chuck Klosterman and a staff of young writers, two of whom have previews on the site already, Katie Baker has a piece on the 2010 Knicks, and whether she can really love them . . . → Read More: Sports and Pop Culture Alan Jacobs passes on a terrifying account of a tornado that ripped through an Alabama valley: Soon everything began shaking. They put on motorcycle helmets and huddled in the center of the house. The terrified dog started to bolt for the door; Carl grabbed him and held on tight. The house shook harder. Windows burst. One floor . . . → Read More: Blown Sick last night, I went to bed so early that without intending it, I did catch most of the Royal Wedding this morning. I thought it was well-carried off. My wife asked me how Princess Kate managed to stay composed throughout, no crying, not even shaking. My theory, which you are welcome to disagree with, is this: . . . → Read More: Royalty Princess Diana biographer Monica Ali writes from bed. So did George Orwell and a host of others according to the Guardian. Marcel Proust, famously, always wrote in bed, and perhaps the sinuous, haunting paragraphs of A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu bear the mark of that silent twilight zone. Not only did he write in bed; his room . . . → Read More: Write from Bed Over at his blog, British documentarian Adam Curtis traces the idea of humanitarian intervention from the 1968 Biafran war to our Libyan intervention today. At the center of it were ex- or not-so-ex- leftists. It should be said that it is hard to find any intellectual who didn’t at one time identify with the left. The philosophers . . . → Read More: A Short History of Armed Humanitarianism Will Wilkinson has begun exploring questions of morality at his blog. Apparently he has discovered it’s non-existence. Only thinking makes things right or wrong for him. Wilkinson agrees with Jesse Prinz that there seems to be no reason to think morals are innate to us, considering the variation of them in time and culture (cannabalism and polygamy . . . → Read More: Problems with Moral Relativism I apologize for launching a blog this summer and then burying myself in a major project – more on that soon, I hope. But I’m back and had another wonderful conversation at Bloggingheads.tv with Sarah Posner of Religion Dispatches. Topics included America’s divinely-charged foreign policy, the Pope’s comments on condoms, and whether pro-lifers and pro-choicers can . . . → Read More: What is Unwanted: The Pregnancy or the Child? Sometimes it is good to give short answers to current questions: Should a 50-member church in Florida burn the Koran? I don’t care. Is it any of my business? Probably not. Are foreign Muslims who are rioting over this over-reacting? I guess so. But it really isn’t for me to say. Should individual citizens determine their behavior according to the . . . → Read More: Burn the Koran? Roger Berkowitz has a very smart piece in the latest issue of Democracy on how Americans have given up on judging others and in turn given up on justice itself. He begins with the reluctance of media outlets to call torture what it is, but moves on to talk about how Bush was justified in calling . . . → Read More: Judge, By All Means |
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