Monday, March 21st, 2011
Our Newest War
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Against Our War in Libya

| March 21st, 2011

When your country fires 122 of 124 Tomahawk missiles into a country in a single day, and your pilots are doing bombing runs, then your country is leading a war on that other country. That's true even if the French President got his jets there first, and your president only announced it in a radio address from Brazil.

So there are some problems with this.

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Culture and TV
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When Bad People Make Art About Christ: At Least Mel Gibson Hasn't Stabbed Anyone! Yet!

| August 6th, 2010

I've lost count of how many times Mel Gibson has made a wreck of his life. The rants about Jews, his womanizing, his apparent mentorship of Britney Spears-and then the insane recordings where he pretty much admits to physically abusing his girlfriend. Former would-be censors of his film The Passion of the Christ have told us (rather gleefully) that the full revelation of Gibson's twisted psyche vindicates their view that his film and memory should be erased from our memory and maybe burned on a pyre.

The idea that the private faults of the artist make their work too impure is of course a nasty religious [...]

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Listicle Without Commentary
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Calvinist Theological Concepts in Order of How Much They Sound Like Horrifying Sex Acts

| July 19th, 2010

10) Federal Vision

9) Presuppositional Apology

8) Unconditional Election

7) Infralapsarian reprobation

6) Monergism

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Opinion
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Burn, Sinners! It's the National Day of Prayer!

| May 6th, 2010

Against the wishes of a judge in Wisconsin, President Obama issued a proclamation marking May 6, 2010 as a National Day of Prayer.

As expected, sectarians of every faith engaged in an orgy of sacral violence against atheists, liberals, and gays-incidentally killing almost the entire membership and clergy of the Episcopal Church. In Manhattan this morning, the screams of sinners about to face their final Judge were accompanied by a live performance by Jars of Clay on the former Today Show set.

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Opinion
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Floyd Mayweather As The Great Black Villain

| April 30th, 2010

"Shane Mosley says ‘Floyd Mayweather fights for money.' You fuckin' dummy; I'm a prizefighter. That's what I'm supposed to fight for: a prize. Duh!" – Floyd ‘Money' Mayweather.

People say that Floyd Mayweather is arrogant, that he doesn't care about "boxing" in the abstract, only himself. This is the opposite of the truth.

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Culture and TV
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In Praise of WFAN's Steve Somers

| March 23rd, 2010

Good evening to you. And how you be? Steve Somers here and you there…. Those words probably saved my life. More than once even. Almost every Friday for two years, I left my little office in Arlington Virginia, and drove to suburban New York, to my fiancée. Each time, I had to chose: I-95 or Pennsylvania. On this dilemma, I quote no lesser authority than Keith Gessen's All the Sad Young Literary Men.

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Dear Conservative Movement: Stop Ruining My Life, by Michael Brendan Dougherty

| January 21st, 2010

Dear Conservative Movement,

That was crazy in Massachusetts! Right? I mean, it was like two months ago that liberals were all up in our faces. They said, "NY-23! We beat that Doug Hoffman, teabaggers!" Yeah. They beat a third-party candidate. And then Ted Kennedy's still-warm seat was just handed to us. They can console themselves with a congressional district, while we strangle the most important liberal reform since the Johnson administration.

So, yeah. We're supposed to be happy. I know we're all talking about the glory days of 1994, or 1984. I'm sure there is some mid-level staffer at National Review, trying to conjure the tears of Barry [...]

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