Somehow, I don't think all of the Daily Dish's posts show up when I click 'refresh'. It seems as though there are more posts on the blog when I go back and re-read it. Perhaps, some are 'in progress' and get posted at later times, but with an earlier sequencing. It's not a failing. It's just that the material doesn't stream serially, I guess, the way I expect it.
Meanwhile:
1. Dunegrass. :: ... more fun to "get lost" in a cornfield or bamboo patch?
2. Any day now, Reihan will reboot himself. :: Looking forward to a properly booted and ready-to-rumble Reihan.
3. Matt Yglesias defends himself. :: One Harvard guy rushes to another, proving two adages. One, that Harvard guys are persecuted and fragile. Two, "you can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much." More to the point, both viewpoints in counterinsurgency are useful. COIN didn't replace "capture or kill" with "embarrass or embolden". You need all those tools, I think.
4. [Thatcher] remains the unsung heroine of recent British history: :: Maggie was totally punk !? Maybe with an unexpected legacy:
Ronald Reagan’s world lead to two things: An overwhelming sense of what-the-fuck-let’s-just-get-drunk-and-fuck-shit-up nihilism and hatred of Reagan. The former lead to the Meatmen/GG Allin school of punk; the latter to what we now think of as “Reagan bands.” [Keep reading, for Maggie's treatment]
5. "A welfare state attempts to care for the poor, but does so through compulsion." -a reader, AS . LOL. "Compulsion"? Is that like, "knee-jerk"? Maybe try, 'collective redress' - that seems to capture just how 'welfare states' amended the festering problems that came before them. If Andrew and his reader want to go back and live in the 1880s, say, and find out how "successful" they are, let them, I say. No FDA, no social security net, no higher education loans, opportunities for those with the right religion and the right race (or sex), hangings for sedition. Go for it - it was SO grand, eh? A veritable Golden Age!
6. Journalists don't list faith mags: Another case of being totally out of touch. :: Eh. Seems like it should be a separate list, anyway, otherwise it looks like posturing, as in, "See, I have faith, I read Faith magazine."
7. The Conservative Case Against War :: I'll just leave the Cons to argue this one out among themselves, but some Liberals believe that Conservatives are naturally disposed to wars in order to protect their property ...
8. Beards. Most of Corporate America still doesn't know what to do with that ...
