For some reason, I feel like I should like Rick Warren. Â He represented for me, in the nineties, what I believed to be a progressive force in the Christian church. Although I’m now something of a post-evangelical (old-fashioned term I know), I still feel some fondness for Warren; I now ...
Read MoreHarry says ‘Paki’: all aboard the bandwagon!
I posted on W&T the below response to this story, regarding a home video taken by Prince Harry who was filming his army comrades and referred at one point to “…our Paki friend…†Ahmed, trigerring a firestorm of self-righteous moralising. For those of you who don’t know, Paki is a ...
Read MoreScary Jesus
The highly anticipated sequel to Chocolate Jesus.
Read MoreBritish gun policy: backfired
See the Firearms section on the right for more on why banning guns is counterproductive and wrong in general, and see this video from the UK aptly titled ‘The British Called: They Want Their Guns Back!’
Read MoreFrom the archive: Response to Naomi Wolf
Original published on November 8th, 2005 at 9:52am. ———————– Dear Naomi In response to your article in the Guardian – “We Americans are like recovering addicts after a four-year bender” – I’d like to point out a few things I believe you got wrong. You start by saying that George ...
Read MoreSnow in Las Vegas!
We’re used to warm, dry and sunny weather here in the southwestern U.S. all winter.
Read MoreIntroducing the Mactini
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Read MoreMy gift to you this winter: Eby’s Zinc
How to cure the common cold, below. From what I’ve gleaned from my various correspondences with people, one thing people tend to appreciate about me (among all the other things they can’t stand) is that I hold a high view of reason. In other words, I don’t say much on ...
Read MoreReporter throws shoes at Bush, demands freedom
Ah, the irony.
Read MoreBBC threats supported by lies
You know the assholes who insist on threatening you with a jail term unless you pay for the BBC are desperate when their sordid intimidating letters are chock-full of faked information.
Read More“Shitload of Math Due Monday”
One of the biggest news stories of the past week: OLD BRIDGE, NJ
Read MoreI can’t show you the rest of this album cover
Or at least I’m not supposed to. This is the cover of The Scorpions’ album, Virgin Killer, released over 30 years ago, and it’s become the focus of a censorship issue because, clearly, it depicts a minor in a state of undress and falls foul of child pornography laws. It’s ...
Read MoreGay marriage doesn’t go far enough, says Robert Epstein, and he’s right!
Robert Epstein, a visiting scholar at UC San Diego, has an opinion piece in this morning’s Los Angeles Times wherein he argues against gay marriage in favor of something much bigger. So, what gives? There is no convincing evidence — absolutely none — that … various forms of romantic partnership ...
Read MoreComment from John Perez
A commenter on my post about the appointment of Janet Napolitano to the Obama administration, John Perez, says: I don
Read MoreFagan agrees
Fr Sean Fagan is a Catholic theologian who’s written some great things on the subject of sexuality and theology in his new book What Happened to Sin? Crawley quotes from the book extensively here. I bring this up because I’m interested to note, having read the excerpts, that Fagan would ...
Read MoreSums it up
By Ji Lee in Portfolio.com.
Read MoreThis man is an arrogant ignoramus
His name is Richard Daley, mayor of the city of Chicago, Illinois. Daley is a dunderhead, but he knows how the U.S. Constitution works: it was written by the framers and is interpreted by the courts, the highest of which is the U.S. Supreme Court. He knows that if the ...
Read MoreMy visit to the Scottish Parliament
As the subject of modern art came up recently, I dredged this article from the archives for your interest. It was written in Edinburgh, Scotland after I visited the Scottish Parliament building and had some fairly… strong… opinions about it. July 28th, 2006, 11:32pm ————————————– I visited the Scottish Parliament ...
Read MoreObama’s doin’ okay!
Anytime a center-left politician takes office, libertarians like myself watch closely for fear that they’ll take the opportunity to indulge in all the kinds of collectivist ideas their more extreme buddies natter about in their ears constantly. It has to be said – for whatever reason, whether the current crisis ...
Read MoreThanksgiving for The Libertarian Moment!
It isn’t often that an op-ed gives me chills. This fantastic article by Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch follows hot on the heels of Veronique de Rugy’s piece asserting that, in fact, we’re all freer today than we were 40 years ago, and observes even more fully that we are ...
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