"Do you know how to make God laugh? You tell him your plans." Hari Sheldon – Foudation's Fear
Posted in Blog Post on Aug 29th, 2009
The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” I’m re-posting this bit from Andrew Sullivan and David Frum because it is the single best piece I’ve seen on how to push back against conservative counter arguments against health reform. At this point health reform is the conservative position. I find myself [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 6th, 2009
The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” Sullivan asks if Obama is too timid for times that call for stronger leadership? The question buzzing around Washington’s chattering classes is the following: is the actual historical moment that Obama inherited — unforeseen in its scope and danger this time last year [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jul 1st, 2009
The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan. Beck agrees that we need another 9/11 attack to “save” us from the evil socialist plot that is the Obama administration.
Posted in Blog Post on May 5th, 2009
via A View From Your Recession | The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan. One of Sullivan’s readers captures the angst of many in the middle class: …We’ve also been helping out my wife’s parents quite a bit. Her father’s contracting work completely dried up a year ago and they are facing destitution having used [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Apr 21st, 2009
MSNBC is showing clips of Dick “The Penguin” Chenney asking for the de-classification of additional memos that he claims show that torture “enhanced interrogation” works. This is so we can have an “honest debate”. CHenney wants and honest debate? That’s just so loaded with irony it’s hard to know where to begin. Andrea Mitchell notes [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 30th, 2009
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (March 30, 2009) – Another Dead Stoner. Buried with more than a pound of pot 2700 years ago? What a send off, Sully asks “when did we become less civilized?”
Posted in Blog Post on Mar 29th, 2009
The Daily Dish – The View From Your Recession. Sullivan may not be a fan of true health care reform but this is a very good reason why it’s needed: I’m an infectious disease specialist. Today I saw a patient with a horrible foot ulcer from diabetes. She likely has infection in her bone, will [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 18th, 2008
Committing war crimes for the “right reasons” – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com. Glenn Greenwald weighs in on Ross Douthat’s post at the The Atlantic. Douthat believes that while Bush et al. may have violated international laws, treaties and domestic laws against the torture of prisoners, but it was justified, and still is, by a real [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 18th, 2008
EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect. Ezra defends Andrew Sullivan by way of an actual real world example of interrogation techniques that work, as opposed to the Reuel Marc Gerecht fantasy created whole cloth from episodes of 24. Important points to note: Torture and abuse at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib was a prime motivating factor [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 29th, 2008
Re-Thinking The Terror War – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan File this one under “no shit?” The great unanswered question of the last six and a half years is: why haven’t we been attacked again? There are logically two – not necessarily exclusive – possibilities: our defense has been getting much better; their [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Feb 18th, 2008
So Sully thinks that not having an extended vacation since August is sufficient reason to believe he needs a week off in February? Typical European socialistic slacker behavior. Quality time with loved one our wandering about “finding your center” doesn’t add a penny to GDP and sounds suspect in a New Agey sort of way. [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 9th, 2008
How did she do it? | By Andrew Sullivan Wow that must of hurt. I hope he didn’t get an aneurysm typing that post. Poor Sully…
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 7th, 2007
One of the better takes on the candidate’s effort to find common cause with Greater Wingnuttia: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan It is eloquent in many parts, stirring in its defense of religious liberty, with only a couple of notes off-key: Americans tire of those who would jettison their beliefs, even to gain [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 4th, 2007
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan I’d vote for Clinton against anyone in the GOP field, but she’d definitely not my first choice. I’d rather see Edwards win the primary and Obama is my second choice. Obama’s greatest weakness IMHO is his stance on health care reform. I don’t think he clearly gets what [...]
Date: 07/30/2006