Status Uncertainty and Economic Disparity

Over at Crooked Timber Daniel Davies is writing on the recent Chris Mooney book The Republican War on Science from a meta-structural point of view. Mr. Davies asks what are the factors that allow for a potentially receptive audience to swallow cod liver oil from the propagandists of the right. His...

Underpants Gnomes in Iraq

Jim Henley makes a wry observation that the US strategy for a democracy domino theory for Iraq was planned with the same logic as the Underpants Gnomes business model and therefore it has the same level of success: You may recall that the next steps in the Grand Strategy were 2) All the other Arab countries...

P-G moving towards accountability

I learned today via 2 Political Junkies that Jack Kelly is no longer the national security columnist for the Post-Gazette, but from Mr. Kelly’s blog, this is the new situation: The reason is I’ve been fired as the national security writer. I’ve been forbidden to write news stories about...

Sketchbook Saturday

I had a meeting today at a coffee shop with a man that wants me to draw some cartoons for a satirical project he’s working on. He paid me for a couple of cartoons, due next Saturday. When I left the meeting, headed for the library, this man in the sketch was playing his guitar on the pedestrian mall....

This Will Make Your Head Explode

The Pentagon plants a news story claiming it will review it’s policy of planting news stories.