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Expendables

The movie was simply incoherent. None of the characters are fleshed out or well constructed. They’re not really constructed at all. Little bits and pieces of personality are thrown in the audience face (Yin Yang’s “family”, the lucky ring, cauliflower ears, and so on) without ever returning to them or trying to weave them into [...]

Doubt, Indecision, & Judiciousness

Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is — and that is the point I want to stress — that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word. . . I ask whether it is not possible to see in the present [...]

How to Argue with Andrew Breitbart

Courtesy of Conor Friedersdorf

The Two Party System at Work

Liberals: X is an even bigger problem now. The solution Y3 is an urgent national priority. Conservatives: The Founders would hate Y3. It’s European. In other words, socialist. Why doesn’t anyone care about how many people Mao killed? Voters: Yeah, why doesn’t anyone care about how many people Mao killed? And Y3 is a flawed [...]

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