The doctor shoved the syringe into the old man's neck. He collapsed in convulsions before lying still. The Grim Reaper cackled surprisingly loudly in the background, as President Obama (or at least someone with a mask that looked like him) danced in celebration at the macabre spectacle. ...
And the impossibility of conservatism. It's 1964. A stranger approaches and tells you two political movements will arise in the near future, the New Left and the New Right. One of these movements will dominate American politics for a good quarter century. Indeed, political scientists will define ...
Dave Weigel has a typically vivid piece about what the Knob Creek machine gun shoot was like this year, capturing the mix of gunnies, gawkers, conspiracy nuts, and folks looking for cheap ammo. Arguably, the profile of the audience at Knob Creek is newsworthy because a good chunk of the ...
The annoying thing about tear gas is that it doesn"t hit you all at once. They had used a smoke grenade before that and so you assumed it was just another one. You cough slightly at first, so slightly you don"t think about it. Then you notice everyone else is doing the same thing. Then you ...
The Two Minutes of Hate began in Ballston before the movie even began, when the previews of Oliver Stone's W. hit the screen. My brief speculation as to the political leanings of the crowd dissipated, as the Republican faithful screamed in rage at Stone's biopic. "Judas," ...
My friend Dave Weigel has a revealing post at Reason's "Hit & Run" blog about Ron Paul's long-overdue endorsement of Chuck Baldwin. Weigel refers the scornful commentators at "Hit & Run" to some "unfiltered Chuck" detailing his opposition to the North American Union, ...
David Sirota begins his tour of American populism by telling how he hung around with leftists, got drunk, daydreamed for a while, and then threw up. Sirota's The Uprising has ambitious aims"a no holds barred, behind the scenes look at the anti-Establishment movements of Left and Right grouped ...
I reported to registration to receive my official totebag, T shirt, and condoms. In the bustle, I was only able to grab three packs, but luckily, Students for a Sensible Drug Policy and NARAL were handing out prophylactics in the display area (unfortunately labeled "Screw the Drug War"). ...
