With apologies to Mojo Nixon:Power is everywherePower is everythingPower is everybodyPower is not still the king
by Dan Nexon | 15 Oct 2008 |
With apologies to Mojo Nixon:Power is everywherePower is everythingPower is everybodyPower is not still the king
by Patrick Thaddeus Jackson | 13 Oct 2008 |
There's this video of McCain supporters in line at a rally in Pennsylvania that has been making the rounds on the 'Net (tip of the hat to Janice Bially Mattern for sending it to me). Here it is now:Figuring out what to make of this is slightly more complicated than simply having a gut reaction to it -- not the a gut reaction is unimportant, or even necessarily wrong, but in this case I think it can obscure some of what's going on in the scene....
by Peter | 11 Oct 2008 |
One thing that has been bothering me of late in the Presidential debate is how the press and the public are asking the wrong questions of the candidates about the economy. While part of it may be symptomatic of a general lack of understanding as to what is going on, it also betrays an intellectual laziness in those covering and discussing the campaign. Wedded to tired lines of debate, these questions rehash what we think is important and...
by Dan Nexon | 11 Oct 2008 |
David Brooks always styled himself as a member of the conservative intellectual vanguard. He would much rather be an observer of "real people" than to actually dirty his hands at playing milkmaid in his own Hameau de la reine.But David Brooks has recently come to a stunning realization: To borrow a line from Jeff Foxworthy, "you might be a member of the East Coast elite if... you have a column in The New York Times, are a regular commentator on...
by Dan Nexon | 11 Oct 2008 |
Yesterday I wrote in an email to a conservative blogger that I thought that McCain still had a fighting chance. I don't think so any more. I suppose enough slime might make this thing close. An al Qaeda intervention, or some other exogenous shock, might even salvage McCain's position.But I'll be very surprised if Obama doesn't win this thing, and win it convincingly.
by Dan Nexon | 11 Oct 2008 |
I've been fairly prolific lately. This state of affairs stems, in part, from what I've been working on for the last couple days: copy editing page proofs, which amounts to one of the dullest things I've done in furtherance of my career. Ever. Moreover, as I'm sure is the case for at least some of our readers, my mind has been colonized by two pressing developments: the final innings of the 2008 US Presidential campaign and the potential...
by Dan Nexon | 11 Oct 2008 |
by Dan Nexon | 10 Oct 2008 |
In my failed attempt to implement a different haloscan configuration, I inadvertently added "ratings" to the blog. My general inclination is to remove them, as I don't understand what purpose they serve and the stars look really ugly. But I see people are already using them. So, should they stay or should they go?
by Dan Nexon | 10 Oct 2008 |
Andrew Sullivan proves himself a shill for Svalbard. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, Sullivan claims that the seed vault is a hedge against human extinction. But Svalbard watchers know the true role of the vault in Svalbard's plans for Panzerbjørn world domination. Why else would the Norwegians and the Russians engage in grim-faced saber-rattling over Svalbard?While we're on the subject, I should mention Zak's concern about a...
by Dan Nexon | 10 Oct 2008 |
My side of the blogsphere seems to think the video of a McCain supporter mouthing off about socialists and hoodlums is an indictment of McCain himself.When I watch the video, I see McCain affirming the man's anger but trying hard not to endorse his views. McCain, in fact, says he will work with "anyone" to solve the current crisis. Although I find the accusation that the contemporary Democratic party and its Presidential nominee are...
by Dan Nexon | 10 Oct 2008 |
I've been curious about the accusation--which can be found in almost any comment thread on a media website--that Obama wrote a "foreword" for the William Ayer's book, A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of the Criminal Court. The rumor is obviously false, as the book doesn't even have a foreword (but does have two five-star reviews. I wonder how long that's going to last). So where did the rumor come from?The best I can tell is that Obama...
by Dan Nexon | 9 Oct 2008 |
When Obama's participation in an anti-redlining lawsuit is characterized as a "smoking gun" for his culpability in the current crisis, I know that we're through the looking glass.The bizarreness of attempts to blame the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and ACORN for the current subprime crisis is so totally bizarre that it raises an important question: is the point of all of this to (1) simply find some way, no matter how warped, to blame Obama...