Fascinating:Thousands of low-income Massachusetts residents will receive discounted home heating oil this winter under an agreement signed Tuesday with Venezuela, whose government is a political adversary of the Bush administration.A subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company will supply oil at 40 percent below market prices....
Month: November 2005
Russell Arben Fox has a typically thoughtful response to my recent post about Bob Casey and abortion politics. You should read the whole thing. I have a couple quick comments.
Good post by Daou.
Wow--Todd Zywicki called P.Z. Myers a "Lysenkoist" because he was arguing against Scott Adams' ID apologism. And apparently the basis for this charge is...P.Z.'s critical remarks about the pseudo-science of evolutionary psychology! Um, between evolution and tautological just-so stories about the innate inferiority of women,...
With this mention in the Kentucky Kernel, I'd like to think that my reputation as a public intellectual is secured. Look out, Christopher Hitchens.For the record, I seem to recall.
Budding Sinologist has put together an excellent post on Chinese ballistic missiles and their presumed effect on Taiwanese resistance. Long story short, it is extremely unlikely that China could defeat.
Armchair Generalist has had an outstanding series of posts on the use of white phosporous munitions in Iraq. I tend to concur that this isn't much of a story; WP munitions are not WMD by any definition, and while their use may be unwise, it's...
jonst poses a good question, one that echoes other arguments made about the Iraqi insurgency:I would argue there is nothing in Iraq's history...at least since the fall of Ottoman Empire,.
I've noted several times that according to many conservatives apparently the gravest insult of Samuel Alito is to point out that he agrees with them. Dahlia Lithwick has the finest.
Last weekend I intended to see Capote, but the E train was running roughly once every two hours, and always wary of being tempted by the Krispy Kreme across the street from the theater in Chelsea I didn't leave enough time, and got there way...
Yeah, I know, it's my fault for watching. But it's painful to think what The Simpsons would have done with the California recall at its peak. As opposed to now,.
Mickey went for a few days without saying anything staggeringly stupid. Then he decided he needed to make up for it:Murtha has now established exactly the worst context for a.