When to swing at wild pitches
Previously on One Damn Thing: An earlier post on how best to respond to the Right’s weirder rants has sparked two very thoughtful replies by, not coincidentally, two very thoughtful bloggers. I’d asked: One goal of partisan communications is to control the...Darren Barefoot hates us, and maybe with good reason
As part of our ongoing series on reflection and sweet reason, and why so many bloggers hear those words and flee in the opposite direction, here’s a pointer to Darren Barefoot’s I Hate 99% of All Political Blogs: The disease Polariza Americanus grew out of...Giving David Frum hell without giving him the agenda
David Frum’s recent bizarre anti-Canada screed in the New York Times sparked an understandably vituperative reaction from many of the bloggers I read. Gazeteer takes a few well-aimed whacks; Koby is a little more temperate if no less passionate. The most...Blogs of Steele!
Graham Steele, the New Democrat MLA for Halifax Fairview, is one of the few Canadian politicians to have their own blog. (Staff-written embarassments like Paul Martin’s late — in every sense of the word — unlamented entry into the field need not...Atoms vs. molecules, nodes vs. networks: where is progressive activism going?
Here’s an account of a conference of American left-wing activists. There are many telling passages, but this one hit home the hardest: There were leaders, all of them older, of extremely prominent liberal interest groups. We’re talking labor,...
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