What I find particularly bizarre about the whole incident is that Allen, with his seemingly calculated wanna-be redneck, good ol' boy vibe, still somehow found a way to get in trouble for making a racial slur in French. Surely, after freedom fries and all that else, that can't sit all that well with Allen's base, can it?

Posted at August 16, 2006 3:34 PM in response to Of Monkeys and Senators

I'd really like to know how he followed-up on the claim that "lesbianism is not as bad as homosexuality, in practical terms."

Well, if his thinking is anything like that of some of the religious conservatives I grew up around it may be something along the lines of "sex isn't actually sex unless it involves penetration with a penis," (this is the line of logic that allowed a lot of young women I grew up with to keep wearing their chastity rings even after doing a lot of things most people would consider sex). That then leads into, for some of these folks: "ergo lesbians aren't really having sex, poor deluded souls."

Posted at August 14, 2006 4:09 PM in response to Qaradawi on Homosexuality

Ugh, figures this would happen right before I'm supposed to fly to other parts of the country two consecutive weekends in a row. And my checked luggage always gets lost.

Wish I had a solid shampoo factory right about now. I'd be making a mint.

You do know, darling, that your nice description of a terrorist attack on the Metro (which, I agree, would bring the city to its knees--just look what happened with the flooding in June!) means big brother will be monitoring your phone calls from now on and you'll probably never be able to fly again without being "randomly selected" for screening....

Posted at August 11, 2006 8:21 AM in response to Fluid Dynamics

damn. I was hoping this really was going to be a post about dynamic scoring!

Posted at August 9, 2006 11:23 AM in response to Dynamic Scoring

Darling, the royal we does not suit you.

Posted at August 1, 2006 8:52 AM in response to New Column

So the problem for genetic engineers is how to instill in their hybrids a moral sense that is so desperately lacking among ordinary men of below-average intelligence.

And not lacking in plenty of men (and women) of average, above average and even extraordinary intelligence? I beg to differ...

Posted at July 19, 2006 1:55 PM in response to Chimeras

Hm, are these events really the glorified conservative meet market they strike me as appearing to likely be?

"Hey Heritage chick, let's come back to my place and do our own research on friendship between libertarians and conservatives..."

And if I went, would I have to wear a skirt and pearls?

Posted at July 17, 2006 9:39 AM in response to Programming Note

Well, their argument seems to be more about framing--or how you talk about the ideas you have--than policy--or what those ideas actually are. Which is ok; they're framing guys, not policy guys. The funny thing is that they're making an argument about the importance of policy that completely glosses over policy because--they're not policy guys.

But it still wouldn't hurt for the policy guys and gals to think more in terms of ideas that can be pitched big. Not would it hurt for the party in general to start acting like the work the policy guys and gals do is important--which ironically would probably mean fewer op-eds about why we need ideas and more actual discussion about them...

Posted at July 10, 2006 2:55 PM in response to Not Ideas About The Thing, But The Thing Itself

Not sure I understand the "getting testy" title?

Posted at July 5, 2006 1:56 PM in response to Getting Testy

This makes me want to track down the kid I new in college who got arrested for making the best fake IDs Nashville PD ever saw and put him to work making fake passports for some of these people.....

Posted at July 2, 2006 6:29 PM in response to No Health for You