Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2653

Stan Marsh Bait

Goldblog features a fascinating interview with Amar'e Stoudemire, "the newest Jewish giant" of the NBA.  Know hope, Stan.
















Amare Stoudemire - National Basketball Association - NBA - New York Knick - Judaism

Quote For The Day II

"We are happy to have [the Americans:] here now. But if they kill a single civilian, people will turn
against them," - an Afghan villager to a New York Times reporter, in a fascinating dispatch from the front.

And there you have the excruciating dilemma of a neo-imperial presence designed to save nations from their own internal pathologies and the rise and rise of Jihadist, violent, medieval Islam. Even when you make no mistakes, there is no gratitude - because you are still a foreign...

Quote For The Day

"Is there any significance to 'new fags'?" - a federal prosecutor questioning 4Chan founder Christopher 'Moot' Poole about the online community's lingo during the trial of a hacker convicted of posting Sarah Palin's email password.
















4chan - Sarah Palin - United States - United States Attorney - Politics

Leaving Iraq In 2011?

You didn't actually believe that, did you?
















Iraq - Warfare and Conflict - International Policy - Iraq War - United States

The Unique Quality Of "Lifelong Heterosexual Monogamy" Ctd

Gingrich's second of three wives, Marianne, grants blockbuster access to Esquire's John H. Richardson in a 8,300-word profile of the former Speaker. The following passage is making the most waves:

"There's somebody else, isn't there?" She kind of guessed it, of course. Women usually do. But did she
the woman was in her apartment, eating off her plates, sleeping in
bed?

She called a minister they both trusted. He came over to the house thenext day and worked with them the whole...

The View From Your Window

Fatick, Senegal, 8.35 am

Senegal - Africa - Maps and Views - Government - Mame Biram Diouf

Ross Responds

Not to me, alas, but maybe that will come. But this point seems to me to be the crux of it. Ross concedes, as does Frum, that his Catholic conception of marriage is no longer even shared by most Catholics. Instead, our common assumption now is that:

marriage exists to celebrate romantic love and provide public recognition for mutually-supportive couples, with no inherent connection of any kind to gender difference and/or procreation, and with only a rhetorical connection to the ideal of...

Not Mordor

A reader in Finland writes:

On Sunday night, a freak storm hit Helsinki. Power lines were down, and some train lines were closed. This footage is otherworldly, and the Helsingin Sanomat website it's taken from said that people panicked, and ran away. Incredible.

Finland - Helsingin Sanomat - Helsinki - Government - Southern Finland

Public Servants Claiming Privacy Rights

Balko talks to law enforcement officials who favor charging and imprisoning citizens for recording encounters with police. Previous Dish coverage of this trend here.

Law - Police - Law Enforcement - United States - Organizations

The World Order

Austin Bramwell uses the words of a radical anarchist to argue that open borders are untenable if we're to preserve society in its current form.

Anarchism - Politics - Directories - Organizations - Theory