Two other quick inauguration notes:
1. Seriously, does Joe Biden EVER stop talking?
2. Dick Cheney?
Archive for January, 2009
“Literally” every time he was on camera
Posted in 2008 General Election, Politics, tagged Dick Cheney, Joe Biden, literally, Mr. Potter on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Blue State Eleanors, Red State Kaitlyns
Posted in Culture/Trends, Names, tagged baby names, Blue State, Joseph, nell, Red State on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A more comprehensive theory for “The Joseph Map” – this one in honor of the inauguration…
Right now, I’m digging Joseph and Nell.
The era of post-partisanship is (momentarily) here
Posted in Politics, tagged Bill Nelson, Rocket Man, Tom Coburn on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First post of the Obama Administration, and I felt like I could do my part to usher in a new era of bi-partisanship (at least for the week). Really, it just gives me an excuse to post a link to the Coburn-Nelson duet. More on that whole inauguration thing later…
Trading pocket-protectors for pitchforks
Posted in Politics, Populism, tagged Caleb Stegall, conservative, Kansas, Pat Buchanan, Populist, Sarah Palin on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rod Dreher of the Dallas Morning News used his column yesterday to predict a surge in American populism on the Right.
Just you wait. We are soon going to see some sort of populist movement stirring at the grassroots. Ironically, it’s more likely to emerge from the right than the left. After all, the Democrats [...]
On the boat
Posted in Politics, tagged Bill Maher, Bill O'Reilly, Christopher Hitchens, Dick Morris, Grover Norquist, Lawrence Kudlow, Mark Penn, Markos Moulitsas, Pat Toomey, Ron Paul on January 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One of those fun hypotheticals I’ve played with friends over the years…
Context: There’s a boat with ten seats that is about to set sail during a hurricane, and will not be coming back. You get to decide who gets a seat on the boat (public figures). For the sake of dodging blood-thirst, [...]
Learning to Read
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Fierce Discontent, Bowling Alone, insomnia, James Weaver, No Ordinary Time, reading, Richard Hofstadter, Skirmisher, Summer for the Gods, The Populist Persuasion, The Spirit of Community, The Wisdom of Crowds on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I rarely make New Years resolutions, at least not consciously. The statistics are just too daunting… most people fail by early February and I’m not so sure failure is the best way to start off a new year. So, this is not a New Year’s Resolution. This is simply spelling out [...]
Top 10 Populist Movies
Posted in Libertarianism, Majoritarianism, Media, Politics, Populism, tagged Dave, Erin Brockovich, Field of Dreams, It's a Wonderful Life, libertarian films, Norma Rae, populist film, Roger and Me, Seabiscuit, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Wizard of Oz, Wall Street on January 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Earlier today, I posted a blurb about some of the movies claimed by the Libbies. Turns out, in the late ’90s, the Orange County Register published a list of the Top 20 libertarian films as determined by the editors of the paper. The criteria they used? They looked for films “that encourage [...]
