Apparently, all you need to do to get one is log a cheerfully written CFP. This just in ( Read more... )

I wonder. Though if you read Fukyama's latest defection from the neo-cons in the NYT Mag recently, maybe not.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4764730.stm

I posted the Murdoch CFP this week. I have so far two responses, one a Brit, one an Italian. Both look promising. I am offically a co-editor of an anthology! Which is just so cool! (pats own shoulder) Here's a little prayer that we get lots of submissions and make all kinds of groovy choices about how they talk to each other and thence create a ( Read more... )

Danish Imams think the whole thing has gone too far. ( Read more... )

Case in Point: I googled "women writers fatwa" and got this, one site among many, not well edited, chosen for its globalism.

Do I find this offensive? Does it hurt my feelings? Yes it does.  Will I try to intigate a multinational, violent response? Maybe. One fo these days, after I quit my job. ( Read more... )

In which Yours Truly ends up agreeing (sort of) with The Weekly Standard.

I need a stiff drink. Several Stiff Drinks. Ice clinking gently in the glass, the gurgle of bourbon liberated from the bottle to be assimilated into my bloodstream and there to work its insurgent energy on my hegemonic brain and thus subvert the Brain's ability of give a ( Read more... )

A friend sent this in reponse to my posts about the Fury of the Cartoon.

Stanley Fish says...

I say... ( Read more... )

Is it me? All of the Libertarians I have met in my life (that's just me) have been white, middle-class men, with decent educations, who have never needed and imagine (foolishly) never needing a social service provided by the state. And lots of the ones I've met have been Ayn Rand fans (i.e.: big selfishness is the highest virtue), which has made it ( Read more... )

Well, Christopher Hitchens in Slate doesn't hold back. And he's on to part of the problem. Similar to the part I'm onto. What he calls childish, I call insecurity. It's wierd to agree with him, even partly. I mean, he's Christopher Hitchens!

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