I keep seeing letters to the editor in the Journal-Sentinel reflecting an idea you’ll also see in national magazines and conservative blogs: Liberals oppose the war in Iraq because they hate George W. Bush and want to see him fail, no matter the cost. This is, of course, insane. Do these W supporters really swallow [...]

My post about Michael Monyelle provoked a lot of comments, almost uniformly negative, as I expected. I am reminded of this passage from Robert Bolt’s play about Thomas More, A Man for All Seasons: Meg: Father, that man’s bad! More: There’s no law against that! Roper: There is, God’s law! More: Then let God arrest [...]

Got a good laugh out of the Journal-Sentinel’s editorial page today (no, it wasn’t from the piece about people plotting to forcibly inflict spoilers on children waiting for the new Harry Potter book — they are scum who should be used as quidditch balls). According to the paper’s editorial board, Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker [...]

It seems that, contrary to the old Frank Loesser song “Standing on the Corner (Watching All the Girls Go By),” you can go to jail for what you’re thinking. Or at least what you tell your parole officer you’re thinking. Yes, Michael Monyelle, on parole for a sexual offense, is to be tried as a [...]

What will it take to get the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel to drop Jonah Goldberg’s column? I suppose it’s too much to hope for some sort of on-air slip that makes advertisers flee in droves. Just as the problem with “Mallard Fillmore” is not that it’s conservative, it’s that it isn’t funny, the problem with Mr. Legacy [...]

Recently I was reading Bertrand Russell’s collection Why I Am Not a Christian, and I was struck by his naïve faith in the power of “scientific psychology.” He believed that we would soon discover the perfect way to raise children free of neuroses, free of what would later be called hang-ups, even free of damaging [...]