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  • Replace Plotz with Dan Gross!

    It was great having Dan Gross on the podcast -- how nice it was to hear someone who knows something more than the journalistic conventional wisdom pipe up with some interesting points about the relevance of behavioral economics and with a good point about the effect of the ''Cash for Clunkers'' program. It's depressing how seldom any of the ...
    Posted to Gabfest by Noumenon on August 9, 2009

  • David Plotz's Odd Relationship with Truth

    I was struck once more, when listening to the latest Gabfest, by David Plotz's seeming disregard for the truth of what is reported or presented in the media. His very cavalier attitude to the piece that Jeffrey Rosen wrote about Sonia Sotomayor reminded me of several other instances in the past when he just could not bring himself to get worked ...
    Posted to Gabfest by Ezrateach on May 10, 2009

  • Great Article

    I loved your article. I was fascinated by your taking God to task for his bad morals. I thought your response to God action was so human. It is just like us to think that God is evil or bad or mean. That He is unlovable and yet we want him to show up for us when we are treated badly or in such trouble that we know we can't bail ourselves out. ...
    Posted to Blogging the Bible by joellenmorris on March 8, 2009

  • You've answered your own question, David

    ...the argument itself represents a kind of belief, because it commits me to engage with God. That's exactly it. That is why no one reads the Bible. It's like studying to become a Microsoft Windows system administrator: why spend all that time trying to master something that doesn't even make sense anyway? Why bring yourself closer to that ...
    Posted to Blogging the Bible by dspiewak on March 3, 2009

  • Good Book

    I think that your comments on the cultural relevance of the Bible to us are extremely relevant however your response to the nature of God and man's ability to understand him just cries out for you to read some Kierkegaard. You might like to try both ''Fear and Trembling'' - especially for the notion of faith as opposed to the ethical - and also ...
    Posted to Blogging the Bible by DouglasClark on March 2, 2009

  • Lack O Stimulus Fest

    Paul Krugman is a ''pretty good'' columnist? (This may not be the exact quote, but that's the gist.) If the world had been listening to him a year or two (or more) ago, we wouldn't be in nearly the economic mess we are in now. But David Brooks writes a snarky column that you can all relate to as DC dwellers (or former dwellers), and this makes ...
    Posted to Gabfest by ginja on February 6, 2009

  • "everybody's President"

    During the Nov. 7 Gabfest Emily said something like this ''He (Obama) is everybody’s president''. Not true. For people like me, who are gay, he is not our president. Not just because he holds the standard ''separate but equal'' notion on marriage that we get from his party. But his election itself is a sign of Gay and Lesbians ...
    Posted to Gabfest by fobrien50 on November 12, 2008

  • Choice

    The discussion of the Oklahoma law forcing a detailed review of their ultrasound on women (10/24) considering abortion misses the nuances of the situation woman/some very young women find themselves in. We are in a campaign in which one side wishes to decrease the access to this medical procedure even in cases of rape and incest. Furthermore ...
    Posted to Gabfest by Cycledoc on October 25, 2008

  • Poor definition

    I agree with much of this article, but I have to point out a single flaw. If in the new Red Dawn those who are supposed to be ''the good guys'' act more like suicidal terrorists than patriots, I don't understand how that lines up with ''conservative nutterdom.'' To then throw Ann Coulter, Mel Gibson and John Milius under that same black tarp is ...
    Posted to DVD Extras by Guardian1 on October 23, 2008

  • Oliver Stone butchers Dickerson in W. (the movie)

    I saw the preview of W. on the 10/9/08 episode of the Colbert Report (colbertnation.com or hulu.com). Not only did Stone cast an OLD man to play John, but he slaughtered John's words. His words. It's like slaughtering Shakespeare. The clip begins JOHN: Thank you sir. Mr. President, After 9/11, what would you say your biggest mistake would ...
    Posted to Gabfest by Auger on October 12, 2008
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