Jeremy Lott's Diary
The lesser of two evils is less evil. Read more
The lesser of two evils is less evil. Read more
Last week, I did double duty because Real Clear Religion deputy Nick Hahn was having his wisdom teeth yanked out. I explained to him that he wasn’t allowed near the website and even ordered him off the Internet for several days because we didn’t want him inventing some new “Vicodin-based religion.” That was a joke, of course, but it turned out to be a whole lot closer to the mark than I could have guessed. When he came to after... Read more
In this review of Glenn Reynolds’s The Higher Education Bubble, I had to slap my own hand every time the urge to write some of my own college experiences into it surfaced. There was just no way to do that and get it in under the word limit. High school was a problem, you could say. It was so tedious it amounted to a prison. Upon turning 16, I informed my father that I was planning on exercising my legal... Read more
Imagine, if you dare, the sales bonanza a certain mouthwash company would have enjoyed in 2008 if it had only touted “The Audacity of Scope.” Read more
That is the question I’ve been mulling over in the matter of Vincent Buys. Buys is a first-term representative in the Washington State House from the 42nd district who also happens to be my landlord. Here, after much deliberation, is what I’ve decided: (more…) Read more
If the moon was made of ribs, would you invade it? (more…) Read more
This is my favorite piece that friend and onetime roommate W. James “Jim” Antle III ever wrote for the American Spectator. It’s a remembrance of his friend Mike Kosior, who died unexpectedly last week at 38. Mike was blind from birth. The two met while they both worked at a Boston-based marketing company. There, Jim learned a little about Mike’s story. Mike’s parents had “insisted that he attend public schools with everyone else rather than be sent somewhere that specialized... Read more
… and this is one of the good days. Take a gander at some of the Real Clear Books headlines I cooked up for today’s update: (more…) Read more
Q: Jeremy Lott, Why don’t you ever go camping? A: Chalk it up to public spiritedness. Q: How do you figure that? A: I’m preventing forest fires. Read more
“What We Write About When We Can’t Write About Anything Else,” was the title of a very meta take on the James Holmes shootings in the Atlantic. Author Jen Doll claims to speak for “writers on the Internet” and their need — our need, I suppose — to find something to say in the wake of the latest real life horror story. Doll marches us through most of the ways writers mine stories like this one for content, and package... Read more
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