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Month: December 2005
Once it was decided that my visiting family would be seeing a movie on Christmas Day I was resigned to sitting through The Family Stone or some such, but everyone.
Christmas is over, and we hold the field of battle.
Tara McKelvey had a terrific article in The Nation recently about academics left and right--some of whom have been called "libertarians"--who have engaged in casual defenses of torture. She's particularly good at identifying the idea, also so evident in the defenses of Bush's illegal surveillance,...
I believe this would make this year's tally white hats 4, black hats zip. (Well, to be fair, the Neckbreakers are 0-3-1.)In better news, the lack of stereo has been.
In addition to being funny, DeLong's anticipatory satire of Charles Krauthammer actually has a serious point: would Krauthammer, or any of the large number of conservative pundits who have endorsed.
I welcome Dave, the fan who introduced me to the show (and put the cool poster in our office) to append comments, but I must admit viewing this project with some measure of apprehension. It's hard to replicate the spirit of a series this long...
Light blogging as I ferry the visiting family around NYC (and, really, who's reading now anyway?), so happy Christ/ukah tomorrow to all of LGM's readers and critics!
Fred Kaplan has a good column on Pentagon budget priorities:Earlier this month, Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England signed a directive declaring, "Stability operations are a core U.S. military mission..
In one of the least surprising developments is history, an Alito memo in which he argued that Roe v. Wade should be overturned has been released:Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito wrote in a June 1985 memo that the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion...
One of the things about writing for one of the 10,000 most popular blogs on the intarweb is that--in addition to the predictable crates of panties, requests for autographs, marriage.
Around these parts you'll see very little positive press given to Christopher Hitchens, and for damn good reason. He can still write when he wants to, and can occasionally amuse..