http://eddriscoll.com/ en-us 2009-02-11T00:00:16-08:00 http://eddriscoll.com/archives/014957.php Please note that as of February 9th 2009, this blog has been incorporated into the main Pajamas Media site and new posts can be found here. While the main Ed Driscoll.com URL will automatically redirect there, the old RSS feed... Ed On The 'Net Ed Driscoll 2009-02-11T00:00:16-08:00 http://eddriscoll.com/archives/014956.php FuturePundit explores "Mate Preference Trends" in the era of, as Tom Wolfe one called it, "Starting from Zero":Strip away tradition. Strip away religious beliefs. What happens? Men and women are looking at each other in ways that seem even more... Bobos In Paradise Ed Driscoll 2009-02-09T13:27:48-08:00 http://eddriscoll.com/archives/014955.php Yawn--another day, another Alec Baldwin meltdown--although give him credit; at least this time it's merely in print, and he's not doing his Christian Bale impersonation (or is it the other way around?) while screaming at his daughter:To John McCain. You... Hollywood, Interrupted Ed Driscoll 2009-02-09T11:38:14-08:00 http://eddriscoll.com/archives/014954.php Despite self-serving doomsday prognostications by President Obama, and a skewed unemployment chart produced by Nancy Pelosi and promoted by Andrew Sullivan, Alan Reynolds, a senior fellow with the Cato Institute, reminds us that "It's A Recession Not A 'Catastrophe'". In... Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal Ed Driscoll 2009-02-09T09:50:15-08:00 http://eddriscoll.com/archives/014953.php What caused the meltdown of the banking system? Was it Texas-Hold'em Poker? According to those new puritans at New York magazine it was--gasp!--television! Worse, horror-of-horrors, it was cable television, and they want this sort of smut and financial pornography banished... Oh, That Liberal Media! Ed Driscoll 2009-02-09T08:40:07-08:00 http://eddriscoll.com/archives/014952.php Candidate Jimmy Carter said yes on the campaign trail, but history remembers his actual presidential administration with much more of a gimlet eye. And President Obama is having more than a few Carteresque moments of his own. Found via Steve... God And Man At Dupont University Ed Driscoll 2009-02-08T20:40:22-08:00 http://eddriscoll.com/archives/014951.php As South Carolina's Governor Mark Sanford noted on CNN today, "A lot of people who've made some very stupid decisions are being bailed out by the population at large":"A problem that was created by building up of too much debt... Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal Ed Driscoll 2009-02-08T17:03:15-08:00 http://eddriscoll.com/archives/014950.php As an adjunct to Kathy Shaidle's recent Examiner piece titled, "The Vietnam War: everything you know is wrong", Indy Jane and The People's Cube graphically illustrate what the New York Times would have looked liked in 1943 if it was... War And Anti-War Ed Driscoll 2009-02-08T15:45:57-08:00 http://eddriscoll.com/archives/014949.php Mary Katharine Ham checks in on the Winter Soldier In Winter, and writes, "John Kerry: You Know What's the Problem With Stimulus Tax Cuts? All That Freedom." (Andrew Sullivan could not be reached for comment.)... Bobos In Paradise Ed Driscoll 2009-02-08T09:45:33-08:00 http://eddriscoll.com/archives/014948.php Robert Stacy McCain and Donald Douglas weigh in on Judith Warner's New York Times-approved Freudian fantasies of a shack-up with Barack, or as Douglas calls it, the "Sexual Subtext in Obamessianism." Update: The Skepticrats are appropriately skeptical about those seeking... Oh, That Liberal Media! Ed Driscoll 2009-02-08T09:34:07-08:00 http://eddriscoll.com/archives/014947.php We'd get at least another four years of Clint Eastwood-inspired tough guy comparisons--and they were right!... Muggeridge's Law Ed Driscoll 2009-02-07T15:17:48-08:00 http://eddriscoll.com/archives/014946.php If you enjoyed the recent "Picture Kill" edition of our Silicon Graffiti videoblog, which looked at a series of deliberately botched or manipulated stories by the MSM designed to drive a particular agenda or worldview, don't miss Kathy Shaidle's latest... War And Anti-War Ed Driscoll 2009-02-07T14:51:16-08:00 http://eddriscoll.com/archives/014945.php Submitted for your approval--two opening paragraphs. First up, this is Iowahawk:WASHINGTON - U.S. Energy Secretary Stephen Chu announced his resignation this morning amid new reports that Alameda County workers had unearthed more than a dozen additional dead hobo bodies at... Muggeridge's Law Ed Driscoll 2009-02-07T14:24:34-08:00 http://eddriscoll.com/archives/014944.php "Did Saddam Hussein Bug Dan Rather Before the Iraq War?"... War And Anti-War Ed Driscoll 2009-02-07T11:10:54-08:00 http://eddriscoll.com/archives/014943.php Join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com and myself for a troika of interviews with best-selling authors: Roger L. Simon, the CEO of Pajamas Media.com and PJTV.com, on his new book, which looks at forty years inside Hollywood, Blacklisting Myself. Bernard... Ed On The Radio Ed Driscoll 2009-02-07T10:55:39-08:00