Transference watch

I liked the speech and the Q&A at the Republican caucus meeting, but I’m not sure we have to depend on Obama, as opposed to ourselves, nurturing the best in us. The Dish today: Because unless the tone changes, unless the pure obstructionism and left-right ding-dong cycle stops, we are on a fast track to [...]

Political epistemology with Nietzsche, the Dish’s favorite!

I finished my last post about the instant interpretation, without questions, in Andrew’s discussion of the suicide bomb who killed 7 American CIA agents. Having said that Andrew was subordinating questions about facts to his desired interpretation, I thought it might be helpful to address the distinction between fact and interpretation, in light of one [...]

Realists and “Isrealists”: Why ask any questions when you can use Ockham’s razor?

I hadn’t thought much about the Dish’s linking to Daniel Larrison, of The American Conservative, on the relationship between jihadism and American support of Israel. Unlike Jeffrey Goldberg, I dismissed Sullivan’s saying this topic of discussion is where “angels fear to tread” as the Dish’s usual Israel-related provocateurism that Sullivan employs for many reasons — [...]

Andrew Sullivan: hockey dad or something even more spiritual?

“Now FIGHT!,” which keeps reappearing as a post title on The Daily Dish, is kind of strange for a happy refrain, though as Andrew has admitted during his live-blogging of the State of the Union: He’s certainly a lot calmer than most of his supporters, including me. I was a bit of a wreck before [...]

Staring-into-the-abyss watch

Of the Nietzsche citations that should come back to haunt Andrew Sullivan, this quote is surely up there.

The man I supported in the 2004 primary …

… went on to achieve Sarah-Palin levels of megalomaniacal narcissism, if Andrew Young’s book is accurate. This was Sen. John Edwards, who I think would have beaten Bush if he had won the nomination: (major spoiler alert) Lord save us from the worst men among politicians, Left and Right.

the King of the World has new clothes … and at least his loins aren’t naked

I gave in and saw Avatar last night. And although I winced from time to time, the sappy manipulation and computerized shock-&-awe did not make me want to escape the theatre. I even forgot about the quarter-of-a-billion dollar budget that could have been spent on Haiti relief … or for that matter, the Dish’s humanitarian [...]

Israel’s “attitude” problem

As if trying to top yesterday’s unveiling of a new ethnic subcategory, that of the “dark”-hearted “Goldfarb-Krauthammer wing” of Jews … this is Andrew in a post today called “Israel’s Attitude” — a doozy: The Netanyahu government has all but declared war on the Obama administration and then openly disses a vital ally, Turkey. The [...]

the “Goldfarb-Krauthammer wing” of American Jews: the Dish identifies it

[ UPDATE: One day later, with a short post called "Israel's Attitude," he compounds the disgrace of the post I write about below. ] *** In a Dish post on Jennifer Rubin’s awful Commentary article about why most American Jews don’t like Sarah Palin, Andrew pays Rubin back with some stereotypes that he’s been privately [...]

Quote of the day

I consider myself a left internationalist, but definitely not a world citizen. The difference is important. Internationalism connects me to leftists in other countries, who are or should be working for the well-being of the poorest and most vulnerable of their fellow citizens. I am engaged with them in what I think of as a [...]