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Like Lead in Water
12/08/2003

I don't know what that title should imply, but I just wanted to note that Craig's got a number of posts worth reading on Lead and Gold, including a mention of Lane Core's skepticism that Hillary will run in 2004. On this matter, I'm apathetic and on the fence. My thinking is that Hillary's likelihood of jumping into this race is inversely proportional to the likelihood of Howard Dean going down in flames, which could be less likely than many conservatives believe. [Note: I had written this sentiment backwards, earlier... oops.]

Craig also wonders aloud about the extent to which Chief Moose enabled further murders by misleading the public about the D.C. sniper profile. I probably haven't paid as much attention as I should to the epilogue of the sniper attacks, but can you imagine the coverage and the outrage if a white police chief had possibly enabled a white sniper to continue killing because the police declared a similar degree of certainty that the killer must be black? It wouldn't even matter, to the press and the public, whether the incorrect profile actually contributed to any deaths. The controversy would be among the top headlines for the nation for months on end.

And finally, Craig also notes Reason's "35 Heroes of Freedom." To be honest, I suspect that I'm falling for Reason's trick by even linking to the list, because it's exactly the sort of thing that seems designed to attract the attention of detractors more than of those who agree. Reason even prefaces the list with an email address to which people can send "angry responses." Matthew Stinson points out a line that will surely be the cause of many such emails:

Mandela cheerfully served a prison sentence that would have left Jesus bitter and spiteful.

I'd respond, but to be completely honest, despite the occasional article that is worth reading, I have a hard time taking Reason seriously as a whole. Stinson opines that the list reads "like it was written by the president of a high school Cbjectivist club." To my experience, much of the magazine reads that way, with the emphasis on "high school."

Posted by Justin Katz @ 11:00 AM EST

1 Comment

Thanks. Just when I think nobody is paying any attention........

ELC @ 12/08/2003 07:40 PM EST