Monthly Archives: January 2007

Quick Advertisement, and a Question

A new social book­mark­ing site called “Right Bump” is up and run­ning and it isn’t per­fect, but I think peo­ple should be sub­mit­ting and debat­ing there, if they’re con­ser­v­a­tive. The other social book­mark­ing sites lean very heav­ily “rad­i­cal,” I’ve been shouted down there many a time by the Dai­lyKos crowd (some of whom are really

On “Blog Bling”

I attempted to post this com­ment at performancing.com, in response to this post about “blog bling,” but it was prob­a­bly thrown out as ego­tis­ti­cal tan­gen­tial rav­ing, which it was. Con­trast it with the com­ments on-topic there, please — I really don’t like my com­ments being thrown out, rightly or wrongly. Agreed entirely. It [a fea­ture

Links, 1/30

Just some links that are def­i­nitely worth your time. I’m not really post­ing today because I have to catch up with read­ing sometime.1. Josh muses on the nature of sin and its con­se­quences in two sep­a­rate posts. If you go back through his recent archive, there’s also grap­pling with SK’s aes­thetic and eth­i­cal lev­els of

Beyond Right and Left: Manifesto

I got whiny on Buzzma­chine about the state of pol­i­tics today, and how I’m right and every­one else is wrong, and I think I had bet­ter write some­thing that states more directly what I want:I still get asked by peo­ple, when they ask me what I study and I answer “polit­i­cal sci­ence,” whether I want to

A Curious Thing

Every time I rant to myself about love or rela­tion­ships, I think through my prob­lems, and the prob­lems of oth­ers, and while I don’t have every­thing exactly right, I know I have it right enough, and am open to bet­ter thoughts if they do come. But thought fails to sat­isfy, utterly fails to sat­isfy. It feels