Month: November 2015

You Can’t Prick the Bubble From Inside

It used to be a simple question of stupid vs. evil, but I think we now need to add a third option, which is “afraid.” For example, not everyone who wanted to invade Iraq was so stupid as to think it was about weapons...

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The Racist and Spineless GOP

I’ll admit that I’m a bit out of sorts and out of touch with the political news cycle. On Friday night, we had Andrew’s wake. On Saturday, we had his memorial service at which I delivered one of the eulogies...

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Dartmouth A-Holes Want Jeb to Drop Out

Back when I was deep in the weeds of developing the site that would become Booman Tribune, Time magazine recognized Powerline as the Blog of the Year. Those were the days, with Bush-Cheney fresh off the ratification of the...

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Hippocrates vs. Einstein

It’s hard to read about the reasons people have for supporting Donald Trump. People say the dumbest things and it hurts my spirit to see how people are misled or how disorganized their thoughts are, or how unsophisticated...

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Casual Observation

I’m a night person. Your diabolical plan to set the clocks back and make it dark out before dinnertime is really just an effort to make me depressed and filled with Nordic despair. When I am president, the Sun will never...

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