If these are Muslims for Peace, one wonders what Muslims for War would look like. Anyway, Prime Minster Anders Fogh Rasmussen (and any Dane, for that matter) is always welcome at the funHouse.
Everybody’s linking to David Mamet’s essay Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal’ for good reason. Did you ever think you would read:
I began reading not only the economics of Thomas Sowell (our greatest contemporary philosopher) but Milton Friedman, Paul Johnson, and Shelby Steele, and a host of conservative writers, and found that I agreed with them: a free-market understanding of the world meshes more perfectly with my experience than that idealistic vision I called liberalism.
in the Village Voice. No doubt liberals and conservatives are having heart attacks.
Eamonn Fitzgerald writes about his visit to an exhibit in Venice:
Overall, it is well worth seeing, especially if you think history repeats itself and particularly if the weather is bad.
When I finally get around to writing about my visit to Venice, the prose will be much worse but the pictures far superior.
Do the rich get richer and the poor get poorer? According to Carpe Diem, the Brookings Institute’s research says the college educated are getting richer. Good news to my mind as the wife and daughter are about to imbark on a weeklong trip to visit colleges over spring break.
Tom Maguire is a master at both the long and the short form blog post; this time I’m linking to a masterful short post. Bonus, it’s shooting Krugman in a barrel. Not much sport, but plenty of enjoyment.
Steve Boriss reports on differing standards in journalism between the US and the mother country: “Are you really that acquiescent in the United States?” I guess we’ll have to recall all those “Don’t Tread On Me” flags and replace them with “Go Ahead and Tread on Me” flags.
