Monthly Archives: November 2007

A Major Reason To Watch Fox News Is That It Is Not CNN

As you’ve undoubtedly heard, Democratic activist operatives got to ask plenty of “gotcha” questions during a televised Republican primary debate that were only designed to make the Republican party as a whole look bad. CNN, of course, denies that their hosting and filtering out participants for the debate was biased in any way. After all, …

November 30, 2007 – 3:14 pm | By ashok | Posted in media, politics | Tagged | Comments (3)

Fun in Russia

From Michael Weiss in the Weekly Standard: According to one of his other lawyers, Karinna Moskalenko, Kasparov has wisely shunned all food and water provided to him by the authorities, going on what may be history’s first self-preserving hunger strike, and he has been given no phone call or visitation rights. Technorati Tags: russia, putin, …

November 29, 2007 – 3:44 pm | By ashok | Posted in politics | Tagged | Comments (1)

Is It Possible To Insist On A More Thoughtful Politics?

What is below are merely notes. I have a few ideas and this is a groping for a quick and dirty solution to the question. I am more than willing to take all of this back and advance something more subtle later. Certainty, fidelity On the stroke of midnight pass Like vibrations of a bell, …

November 27, 2007 – 4:19 pm | By ashok | Posted in auden, poetry, politics | Comments (6)

On the 11/25 Sunday Night Eagles-Patriots Game, and Why I’m Not Praising Andy Reid

1. I want to thank John Madden for actually doing a great job of announcing and explaining key things happening during the game. He picked up on Patriots taking away the sideline throws and playing a soft zone inside; thus, the Eagles receivers making catches (like the Detroit game in one way) wasn’t too surprising …

November 26, 2007 – 11:01 am | By ashok | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Comments (3)

German

Please feel sorry for me. I feel sorry for me.I’m trying to translate this article from German to English and I’m going over what I have translated and sent to the professor and I just can’t believe the nonsense I have sent. It is utterly ungrammatical. As I fix the translation, I do make it …

November 25, 2007 – 6:37 pm | By ashok | Posted in personal | Comments (1)

Links, 11/23

Against law school (h/t Amber) Reading on the decline? Is the method used to determine this correct? Does it matter if we don’t read? Review of a book on the CIA shows that the CIA might be competent at something… Powered by ScribeFire.

November 23, 2007 – 10:58 am | By ashok | Posted in links | Comments (0)

Demosthenes

All of us who love our country do so in the hope it will embrace the others we love. Powered by ScribeFire.

November 21, 2007 – 10:26 am | By ashok | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Comments (0)

Outside

The woods of the park I walked through recently had a chalky gray sky behind them, and a brown earth scattered beneath. But within those woods were fields of color: reds and golds and oranges and browns.The air is crisp and cold and I don’t get the feeling that things are dying. Rather, things are …

November 20, 2007 – 2:56 pm | By ashok | Posted in personal | Comments (2)

Basics

They want to learn, there is much to teach. Accessibility is the issue. The newest readers have read the Gettysburg Address commentary, the brief history of America, and even the essay asking if politics is reducible to rhetoric.So now what? I really don’t want to write on the Federalist and the origins of modern Constitutionalism. …

November 20, 2007 – 12:54 am | By ashok | Posted in personal | Comments (1)

A Non-Catholic’s Guide To Catholicism: On Scripture and Tradition

Why am I writing this post? I’ve run into about 92834792749729729 people the past few days that need basics reviewed – basics of history, basics of religion, etc. I mean, I’m not perfect, I need basics reviewed too. But I kinda want to throw a feeler out there to see what people know about / …

November 18, 2007 – 6:33 am | By ashok | Posted in christianity, education | Tagged | Comments (3)