Almost forgot… “You begin to interest me… vaguely.” –Dorothy Malone to Humphrey Bogart, “The Big Sleep” Read more

HERE WE GO AGAIN: This story on whether pro-life pregnancy centers mislead women and this defense of cloning by Glenn Reynolds lead me to re-post stuff I posted already over on (urgh) GeoCities: “What to Look for in a Crisis Pregnancy Center” and “Love in the Time of Cloning.” Sorry about the formatting, folks. Read more

LIFT EV’RY VOICE AND SING: Here are several links with, as promised, cheerier stuff about black America. They go from most to least depressing. All are from City Journal… because I’m lazy. “What’s Holding Blacks Back?”, by John McWhorter. “Washington’s Lost Black Aristocracy,” by Tucker Carlson. “Toward a Usable Black History,” by John McWhorter. “Still Coming to Dinner” (on interracial marriage rates), by Matthew Robinson. “A Whole Different Crop of Black Leaders,” by Tamar Jacoby. Enjoy. Read more

AYN, BABY: So I finally got around to starting that Questions for Objectivists site that I yammered about back when I was stuck on (gah) GeoCities. Comments, questions, vilification should go to [email protected], but be forewarned, the site’s template is very “beta.” Should get better fairly soon, maybe this weekend. Read more

PRIMARY COLORS: I’m going to do one of those line-by-line bloggy things where you dissect some article by someone who actually got paid for his writing. If you hate those, skip. This is on that Salon.com interview with DeWayne Wickham about why black people overwhelmingly picked Clinton as the country’s best president. Several of my points here are from Shamed; you can assume they’re the good ones. First, some good points by Wickham: “Of the first 15 presidents, 13 of... Read more

ANDREW SULLIVAN SHOULD SUBSCRIBE TO THE REGISTER: So that he’d know that he’s wigging about Scalia’s death-penalty remarks. (Scroll down.) Rod Dreher answered him pretty well over at The Stealth Bloggers, but just in case you’re still wondering whether “the usual defenders of Catholic orthodoxy” really were as silent as Sullivan says, here’s that Reg editorial again. But Sullivan often trots out this weird attitude that the Church’s teaching on the death penalty (which he fudges anyway) is more stringent,... Read more

TNR ROX!: Well, no. But today’s articles on pork (mmm, pork) and especially, of course, farm subsidies were good solid work. I think “Hold still, little catfish!” should feature in some Natalija-esque libertarian porno. Read more

PET SEMATARY, THE SEQUEL: Charles Murtaugh has a piece on cloning in NRO, but, oddly, he writes as if cloning would bring a dead pet back to life. It won’t. Clones aren’t Xerox copies. In other Murtaugh-related news, I feel like an idiot for not getting his point about why organ-selling is like drug-selling. (There’s much goodness on that site today; scroll up.) Read more

AND NOW FOR SOME FAIR AND BALANCED REPORTING: I’ve been following the Shamed/Barlow media bias controversy . Barlow’s post is vast, and I’ll just address a couple points. I agree w/Barlow on media hype of Gore’s “lies,” and Bush did get a pass on some problems that didn’t fit the dumb-Texan stereotype (like the AWOL accusation, which I haven’t checked out so I won’t comment on). Also agree that Ann Coulter is egregious, and her comments are comparable to Julianne... Read more

GREAT MOMENTS IN LEFTY SLOGANEERING: Check out the poster furthest to the right in the photo here. Awesome. (Link will not work after 2/19–go to the YDN archive site and click on 2/19.) Read more