Obligatory New Years Eve Open Thread

Happy New Year, Feliz Año Nuevo and Gung Hay Fat Choy! We here at The Confluence want to thank you all for putting up with us for another year. Eventually we’ll figure out this blogging thing. Tomorrow we’ll discuss New Year’s resolutions, but tonight is the time for excess and overindulgence. Live it up tonight. [...]

Naomi Wolf – Anti-Feminist of the year

Just when you think she’s plumbed the depths of stupidity, she grabs a shovel and starts digging: Why is Rape Different? As Swedish prosecutors’ sex-crime allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange play out in the international media, one convention of the coverage merits serious scrutiny. We know Assange by name. But his accusers – the [...]

The Empire Strikes Back

Nobody saw this coming: FBI Raids Texas Company in Hunt for Anonymous The FBI has raided a Texan hosting company and seized equipment believed to have been used in the distributed denial of service attacks that targeted supposed “enemies” of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, which included the likes of PayPal and MasterCard. It was actually [...]

Quick! I need an appetizer recipe

I need help. I have to bring an appetizer that needs minimal heating to a party tomorrow. I used to bring Reuben dip but everyone has seen that one a zillion times. None of the other recipes in my myriad books seem to fit the criteria that isn’t along the lines of the same, lame [...]

Foliehatt Friday

This week’s foliehatt goes to: Jennifer Rubin Is Palin-mania A Liberal Plot? Apparently PDS is bipartisan. From Seward’s Folly: Murkowski certified Senate election winner Sen. Lisa Murkowski was officially named the winner of Alaska’s U.S. Senate race Thursday, following a legal battle that lasted longer than the write-in campaign she waged to keep her job. [...]