Matt lays out the rules:Now, to qualify as a heist film, certain marks must be hit, and that's part of the beauty of the genre. Much like haiku, the constraints inherent in the form make the subtler details all the more important. A heist movie...
Month: May 2005
Henry Farrel has a nice example of the functionalist fallacy as applied by Stephen Bainbridge to the Royal Navy. He also has the single best title of any post I.
I am a postmodernist.Rest of post removed because it was messing up our template.
Via Prof. B., I tried the "What is Your Worldview" quiz:Existentialist81%Postmodernist63%Cultural Creative50%Modernist44%Materialist44%Idealist31%Romanticist25%Fundamentalist6%What is Your World View?created with QuizFarm.comI guess that given the choices, this seems right (and appropriately unfashionable.)
Jesse Taylor has some fun with Andrew McCarthy's transparently failed attempt to argue that the Constitution prohibits the filibuster of presidential appointees. It must be said that, at least, McCarthy's.
I feel a certain sympathy with Matt and Kevin on this issue. Although I'm not religious, I don't really give a damn about displays of the Ten Commandments, nativity scenes,.
Quiddity presents Rob's point in amusing format, although hopes that the pictures will allow Jonah Goldberg to understand it are probably in vain.
Friday Cat Blogging. . . Stromboli
David Neiwert scares me.
Nice to see the Senators from my former and current state getting to the heart of the matter:May 12, 2005The Honorable Michael O. LeavittSecretaryUnited States Department of Health and Human ServicesWashington, D.C., 20201Dear Secretary Leavitt:We write to urge you to immediately initiate an investigation intoreports...
A shoe that has taken a little while to drop; mainstream conservatives are finally beginning to point out in public that the neo-con project of remoulding the world sits uncomfortably.
Via Dan Kennedy, a blast from the past from Kathryn Jean Lopez, who argues that poor David Hager was being discriminated against for religious reasons, but of course would never.