Hello website visitors. As the intelligent among you can probably glean, I don’t update this page with much regularity. My writings can be found mostly on Medium under the auspices of The Young Turks, where I am now a correspondent. I also do frequent video reports for TYT Politics. Thank you, and may God bless… Continue reading Find My Stuff At The Young Turks
Reading this interview in Christianity Today with Frank Page, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention whose daughter committed suicide, was a rather harrowing experience. It was harrowing firstly because he’s trying to analyze his daughter’s untimely death, and that is necessarily going to make for uncomfortable reading. But it was harrowing also because… Continue reading Mental Illness And The Southern Baptist Convention: We Have A Serious Problem Here
Even after months of relentless scandal, last week the NFL was dealt what may have been its most consequential blow yet. Lebron James, arguably the world’s greatest athlete, announced that he prohibits his two young sons from playing football. “Only basketball, baseball and soccer are allowed in my house,” James declared.
One fallacy I often encounter during online discussions of presidential election politics is what I’ll tentatively term, “appeal to precedent.” It goes something like this: People who think of themselves as very savvy and knowledgeable about this subject will eye-roll and sigh at predictions of how, say, Jim Webb could topple Hillary Clinton in the… Continue reading Stop Making Predictions About Presidential Politics, Because You Don’t Know What You’re Talking About
Despite getting paid obscene amounts of money to espouse political analysis, pundits chronically underestimate the extent to which raw resentment fuels voter behavior. I have occasionally fallen into this trap myself; it did not seem likely to me that the GOP would score easy gubernatorial victories in Wisconsin and Michigan last week, for example. But… Continue reading The Democrats Lost Last Week Because Of Lena Dunham
Just a brief note on an interesting aspect of Cory Gardner’s election Tuesday that I have not seen mentioned anywhere. In the fall of 2013, I spent a fair chunk of time in the rural outreaches of Eastern Colorado — the Eastern Plains, as the area is called — after several counties held a non-binding… Continue reading A Brief Note on Senator-Elect Cory Gardner of Colorado
Yet another international “crisis” has been sparked by none other than Jeffrey Goldberg, a confirmed fraud whose propagandistic browbeating in favor of the Iraq War should’ve decimated any remnant of journalistic credibility he ever had, but instead further bolstered his influence and stature. Because as we all know, the incentive structures of elite journalism are… Continue reading Jeffrey Goldberg Strikes Again Despite Being A Confirmed Fraud
With two attacks on Canadian military personnel last week carried out by mentally-unstable transients in the name of global jihad, as well as a “hatchet attack” on NYPD officers in Queens carried out by another (likely) mentally ill transient, debate has broken out once again on the nature of the nexus between mental health and… Continue reading There’s A Lot Of Muddled Thinking About Terrorism, Motivation, Belief, And Such
As this shameful saga continues to unfold, there’s an aspect of the whole Mike Brown issue that I don’t feel has received enough attention. According to the most recent leaked info put out by an obviously police-sympathetic St. Louis Post-Dispatch crime reporter, Officer Darren Wilson — you know, the person who fatally shot an unarmed… Continue reading An Annoying Aspect Of The Mike Brown Incident That Hasn’t Been Adequately Discussed
On November 2, 2012, professional political pundit Michael Barone announced that he was “going out on a limb” to predict that Mitt Romney would win that year’s presidential election by a landslide. Barone didn’t make a prediction that turned out to be incorrect, but might at least be considered reasonable. He “went out on a… Continue reading Why Does Michael Barone Still Have A Job Commenting On Politics