Good deal.Seven submarine crew members trapped for nearly three days under the Pacific Ocean were rescued Sunday after a British remote-controlled vehicle cut away the undersea cables that had snarled the vessel.The seven crew members, whose oxygen supplies had been dwindling amid underwater temperatures in...
Month: August 2005
Now for something we can all agree on. . .Nobody, or nobody sensible, anymore believes that the Iraq War was pre-emptive. A pre-emptive war, let's recall, is one launched against.
Hiroshima, sixty years ago today.I wonder what it is like to have the entire history of one's city so tightly bound to a day, and afternoon, a moment that it's.
Not for the first time, I've become mildly obsessed with a bad movie.The movie in question is Troy, which appeared and disappeared in early 2004. Troy attempted to ride the success of Gladiator, and, by all accounts, did so better than Oliver Stone's horrific Alexander...
Friday Cat Blogging. . . Buda
This brief post at the "centrist" blog Donklephant makes two glaring errors with respect to the recent Kelo decision which seem to be quite common: Gardner's claim that Kelo "broadened".
Mark Schmitt is, as usual, dead right about David Sirota's call to excommunicate pro-Cafta Democrats: As for the specific case of CAFTA, I agree with Sirota that the right vote was No, for reasons that Rep. Ben Cardin, the ranking Democrat on the trade subcommittee,...
Shakespeare's Sister reacts with a limited degree of optimism about the news that Roberts worked hard for his clients' interests in the landmark gay rights case Romer v. Evans. One.
I'm surprised that the meaning of Cornershop's classic "Brimful of Asha" remains obscure to some music fans; it's part of a great tradition pop music. "Pictures of Lily," "Blister in.
Last year, the mainstream sports media fell over itself declaring that Jason Giambi's success was soley the result of steroid use, and that the presumed end of such use would inevitably lead to his collapse.As of today, Jason Giambi is the best hitter in the...
This is cool.
MSNBC President Rick Kaplan has a new plan for his stillborn show Tough Crowd With Tucker Carlson. In July, Carlson's unwatchable, heavily promoted wankfest ranked as the #37 cable news.