#rsrh QotD, This Is Rhetorical, Right? edition.
Reason’s A. Barton Hinkle, addressing the odd way that Hard Left protests are categorized as mostly peaceful, even when they’re not – and how Right-protests are intimated as being prone to violence,...
View ArticleReason’s DC Taxi Sharecropping video. #tcot #p2
My friend and colleague Caleb Howe already has this up at RedState, but stuff like this irritates the living life out of me: Short version: (Democratic) DC Council members are putting together a taxi...
View Article#rsrh Tim Cavanaugh laughs at Obama. WHO HE ENDORSED.
[UPDATE]: Welcome, Instapundit readers. On the one hand, this post is from September; on the other hand, I fully agree that it still applies. And on the gripping hand, Cavanaugh really should not...
View ArticleI wish to take this song…
…break it down into its component parts, and FIX THE PARTS THAT DO NOT SCAN. Via AoSHQ. As God is my witness, I have to find a way to convince people to RUN THIS STUFF PAST ME FIRST BEFORE THEY GO INTO...
View Article#rsrh What the DC Metro escalator problem can tell us about government.
I was going to riff off of this American Crossroads bit about trying to get Democrats to give back Hilary Rosen’s campaign contributions, but you’re probably getting bored with reading about that. So...
View Article#rsrh Ah, Wisconsin recall singers. Bad #wirecall singers. Bad, Awful, Horrid...
You want to know what the most glaringly obvious thing is about this Reason.tv video? It’s that Wisconsin progressives can’t write songs worth a tinker’s dam. Gentlemen, for the love of God: if you...
View Article#rsrh See, this is why you leave the libertarians out of it.
“It” being defined as “your fundraising crusade to get more Big Green cash*.” See, libertarian groups can get cranky – as in, irritable – when you drag them into your little games. In fact, dragging...
View Article#rsrh Bob Dylan, disliked by Rolling Stone?
Yes, the title is a stretch. So I saw this: Bob Dylan does not like being told what to say is.gd/sscuWl — Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) September 14, 2012 …the link being to this Reason article...
View ArticleNine words to explain gun control enthusiasts?
Arrogant much, Moe? I think that the sentence below explains it all: the reason why gun control enthusiasts tend to be remarkably ignorant of the thing that they’re trying to ban, the reason why gun...
View ArticleLeft’s War On Science Watch: Reason goes to see the anti-GMO crazypants.
You know that Reason.tv‘s got a good video when they can’t get past the intro without being (apparently) assaulted by one of Teh Crazy People. In this particular case, it’s Teh Anti-GMO Crazy people....
View ArticleHow the trendy have fallen.
It is a measure to how far Rolling Stone has sank as a thought-leader that I didn’t even bother to read its “Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should be Fighting For.” Still haven’t: why, that’s what...
View ArticleMarvel’s Age of Ultron counter-leak gambit.
Interesting point here from Reason on the leaked Marvel Age of Ultron trailer: The trailer wasn’t supposed to be released this week at all. Marvel had originally planned to release the trailer next...
View ArticleA reminder about American historical political campaigns.
Pretty, they have never been. Funny, on the other hand…
View ArticleReason TV: ‘Barack W. Bush.’
If only. While the foreign affairs part of this video is largely true, I have to disagree with it on two key points: First off, the Obama administration has not “stopped torture.” They’ve started it...
View ArticleApparently David Weigel likes the kiss of the lash.
And him a former Reason writer, too. Well, none fervent as a convert. What? Where does it say in the rules that I can’t get to do armchair psychoanalysis, too? Admittedly I’m going for ‘sardonic’...
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Nick Gillespie on Obama’s Vision Deficit.
This entire rant by Nick Gillespie of Reason Hit & Run is a thing of beauty… but, alas, full of rough language. This paragraph is relatively repeatable in polite company (H/T Instapundit): And now...
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Take pity on the Tea Party-hating Left?
(Via Glenn Reynolds) Matt Kibbe at Reason is too full of the milk of human kindness when it comes to the Online Left’s reaction to the Tea Party phenomenon. The remarkable ends to which lefty bloggers,...
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“The Brown Scare.” Catchy.
(Via Instapundit) One minor problem with it as a title, though. When it came to the “Red Scare” (which is what Jesse Walker is referencing in his article at Reason Hit & Run), hysteria aside there...
View ArticleLine of the day, Reason Hit & Run edition.
‘…the soft sophistry of low absolutism.’ – Matt Welch, in the process of eviscerating Ezra Klein for, among other things, holding up as a model the state-run newspaper industry of a minor European...
View ArticleQuote of the Day, Matt Welch edition.
I’m really looking forward to the day when tech CEOs feel comfortable in saying “Damn RIGHT, I helped kill newspapers! I’m running a business here!” – Matt Welch. He goes on to suggest a certain amount...
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