Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2682
August 3, 2010
Beards: The Infographic
An Honor Killing In Britain
Crime and Justice - Injustice - Individual Stories - United States - Crime
Drones Over Iceland? Ctd
Michael Scherer takes the time to rebut Thiessen:
To be clear, Assange's crime, according to Thiessen, is intentionally
receiving and republishing classified information, something that is
done with some regularity in the United States by respectable and responsible
reporters working for top flight news organizations. To adopt
Thiessen's view, one would effectively have to reject the Supreme
Court's opinion in New York Times Co. v. United States, the so-called
Pentagon Papers case from 1971.
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Quote For The Day III
"Now, look. I am not exactly an apologist for J Street. But put the merits of J Street aside. Rubin's charge is that the group is a front for "pro-Muslims." Why? Because it favors religious freedom for American Muslims. Rubin does not charge the group with advancing some objectionable principle -- Jihad, America-hatred, or whatnot. She accuses J Street of favoring an objectionable group, Muslims. In her mind, you are either for us or you are for them. The notion that certain principles -...
Banning The Burqa Is Wrong. But We Must Do It.
In a piece reported from Turkey, Claire Berlinski changes her mind about a prohibition against a type of Islamic dress, arguing that to ban the burqa "is an offense to liberty; not to do so is a greater one." I disagree; but I have to say her piece is one of those rare moments when you see both sides in extreme clarity.
Islam - Burqa - Turkey - Claire Berlinski - Islamic
Manzi vs Kleiman
Jim ably dispatches some salient challenges. But there is a concept in this crucial conservative distinction between theoretical and practical wisdom that has been missing so far: individual judgment. A social change can never be proven in advance to be the right answer to a pressing problem. We can try to understand previous examples; we can examine large randomized trials; but in the end, we have to make a judgment about the timeliness and effectiveness of certain changes. It is the...
The 20th Billion Tweet
The Guardian documents it:
Batty writes that it took Twitter four years to see its first 10 billion Tweets but just the past five months to see the next 10 billion.
Read Write Web is a little underwhelmed:
It would be nice to know what percentage of those Tweets were sent byhumans, and what percentage by robots, RSS feeds, Tweeting houseplantsin need of watering and marketing sleazebags who re-Tweet reputableblogs' feeds automatically to give credence and cover to theiroccasionally...
The View From Your Window Contest: Winner #9
This week's contest was quite a bit easier than last week's. A reader writes:
OK, this is now getting fun. I see snow on the ground, so it has to be somewhere cold enough in July to hold that kind of precipitation. I don't believe there is much snow in anything habitable or urban right now in Europe, which would be my first guess given the architecture (new and old) and bullet-spangled buildings. So I want to shift to the southern hemisphere as I do not believe this is anything Himalayan or...
The Power To Form A Family
TNC compares bans on interracial marriage to prohibitions against same-sex marriage:
Banning interracial marriage meant that
black people could not marry outside of their race. This was
indefensible, but very different than a total exclusion of gays
the institution of marriage. Throughout much of America, gays
effectively banned from marrying, not simply certain types of people, but any another compatible partner period. ...A more compelling analogywould be a law...
Quote For The Day II
conservatives a way to rally with the Republican brand name in ruins,
nothing more. They're the Altria of politics," – A commenter at TPM.
Altria Group - Politics - Tea - United States - Marlboro
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