buy Pregabalin online usa In a piece about the Copenhagen talks, the Economist points out that “there are virtually no climate-change sceptics in China.” They mull over why this might be so, but don’t give any convincing reasons. I’ve never been to China, but hearing people talk about it, it seems like a place where pollution is so bad […]
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Climate Change Skepticism.
18-Dec-09Obama’s Responsibility.
02-Dec-09Being in New York is interesting, to hear people assail Obama from both right and left – he’s emasculating this country and bowing down to the Emperor, or is a shill for the military-industrial complex and is “Bush III.” His decision to send more troops into Afghanistan is pleasing no one – it’s not a […]
Conservationist Conservatives.
01-Dec-09Andrew Sullivan popularizes the obvious figura etymologica connecting conservation and conservatism. Of course it all makes perfect sense – what could be more conservative than to conserve one’s inheritance and use it wisely? Perhaps this obvious connection will continue to filter up as time goes on.
“Redistribution of Privilege”
25-Sep-09A marvellously insightful little post from a reader of Andrew Sullivan’s blog. The reader gives a decent explanation of why the terms “communist” and “socialist” appear to be used to describe people who do not seem in the least like the old Soviets. He describes what is feared as not redistribution of wealth so much […]
http://gothamist.com/2009/09/23/howard_dean_former_dnc_chairman.php A good experience too. The transcription can only do so much. My favorite moment was when I told him that I had taught at Saint David’s, a school that would be familiar to anyone that went to Browning. The tone of his voice changed and he paused, as if some memory had just arisen […]
Into the Cave.
14-Sep-09A friend alerted me to the following Sullivan post, which I highly recommend reading in full: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/09/not-racism-projection.html#more One of the lessons of the spiritual life which can be put in brief form, is this: If you think of evil as something that someone else is or does, you don’t understand it and you don’t understand […]
Reading Sullivan once more.
10-Sep-09Is it not wonderful to have Andrew Sullivan back? He tried to let his understudies fill his shoes, to which my reaction was to visit now and again, be amazed that they do not measure up, and generally stay away. Now that he’s back it makes all the difference in the world. What a remarkable […]
Obama on Health Care.
10-Sep-09A superb speech. This man is still head and shoulders above the other politicians around him. I felt that what had to be said were stories along these lines: One man from Illinois lost his coverage in the middle of chemotherapy because his insurer found that he hadn’t reported gallstones that he didn’t even know […]
Subway Kerfuffle.
29-Jul-09Now that the Gothamist traffic has moved on through, for those unfamiliar with the whole story, let me offer the links to sum up the funny little kerfuffle that blew through here a few weeks ago. The Gothamist story: http://gothamist.com/2009/07/07/smart_guy_gets_rounded_up_in_late_n.php Other links to the story: http://everbosity.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/vitriol/ http://queenscrap.blogspot.com/2009/07/what-cops-are-doing-in-subway-these.html http://secondavenuesagas.com/2009/07/08/knowing-the-rules-underground/
Health Care Options.
18-Dec-09Somerset East If the bill is as bad as Howard Dean tells us – and I think Dean has some credibility on this issue – then the right thing to do would be to kill the bill. It would be interesting to see if Obama would be willing to veto it if it passed. That would be […]