So I commented on Duck Dynasty below in a feverish fog and apparently in inexcusable ignorance. Mr. Robertson’s comments included not only his views on homosexuality and sexual ethics but what seem to be incredibly stereotypically unenlightened white Southern views on the Civil . . . . Continue Reading »
As has Rita (my wife). And so your present may be a little late this year. Big issues facing our nation: 1. A Duck guy on the reality show was so realistic as to give his real view of homosexuality and Christian sexual ethics, not to mention his own vagina monologue. When I . . . . Continue Reading »
This is the last of four Obama-and-impeachment posts. The first, Why We Must Talk about Impeaching Obama is the one about the mechanics, about why it isn’t decisive that the Senate won’t convict, and how to consider the various arguments, touching race, elections, Joe Biden, etc., that . . . . Continue Reading »
So Paul Gottfried has written a long and fascinating comment on what I said about the Strauss-Burke conference. I think he confuses somewhat my own view with my sumary of Strauss’s, and everywhere he thinks I’m saying what Strauss didn’t, I think he’s . . . . Continue Reading »
The Constitution’s parts describing impeachment are few—the first two are in Article I, section 3: The House of Representatives . . . . . . shall have the sole Power of Impeachment. . . . The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they . . . . Continue Reading »
On The Square Today. . . . . Continue Reading »
Understandably, a lot of you don’t want to talk impeachment. You perhaps say, “Is it good strategy for Republicans?” And the answer, delivered after a micro-second’s of the mind running back to the Clintonian Age, is of course NO. But sorry, if that is your thought process, you . . . . Continue Reading »
Author of the great new Duke Ellington biography Terry Teachout, who’s also the extraordinarily prolific WSJ drama critic and regular blog-reporter on the NYC arts scene, has some good words on not overdoing one’s intake of and praise for pop culture . These thoughts were initially . . . . Continue Reading »
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