Category: long story short

For the last year or so Sebastian Holsclaw has been holding his own, debating liberals and leftists in the comment sections of many popular left-wing weblogs. Holsclaw has distinguished himself in his intellectual honesty and willingness to entertain nuances that transcend the talking points of the day. Now, Holsclaw has his own weblog where he…

Mark A. R. Kleiman has been following the tree-destruction/collective-punishment story from Iraq and says

Wesley Clark and Joe Lieberman bow out of the Iowa Caucuses to make room for Adam Felber.

We were in a kitchen, me and the two cops, one white and one black. The black one was Colin Powell. We sat down at the table and continued arguing about some system that would allow them to run background checks on people from their squad cars. The cops were against it, saying it would…

A week ago I read in the New York Times (“Republicans Debate Merits of Following Schwarzenegger to the Center”) about a bunch of conservative Republicans spinning Schwarzenegger’s election as a “fluke” (sounding like nothing so much as the spin of the mainstream Democrats here in California) and claiming that his pro-choice and other signal social-liberal…

Why didn’t I … when I had the chance? or, I wish I had kept at that … because I’d be really good at it by now. I should have bought that house that seemed too expensive 15 years ago. Answer: Do it now. Start again. It’s never too late. Now is that time that…