A plain blog about politics

Happy Birthday to Amy Heckeling ,58 (perhaps; sources differ, so I'm assuming wikipedia is correct). And the good stuff: 1. Steve Ko...

Given the bottom of this post, I suppose I'll have to wish a Happy Birthday to poor Jake Lloyd, who is 23 and probably shouldn't be ...

Oh, you know I'm not going to pass on a good Star Wars thread -- this one begun by the good folks at Overthinking It , who explore a goo...

Not a Monday Movie Post, but since Seth Masket has been oddly silent in response to the recent libertarian attacks on the Jedi Order, I gues...

Matt Yglesias says that a lesson of Star Wars is that "the idea of a galaxy-spanning Republic is just hopelessly naïve." He'...