Sweet fancy Moses, a film version of Atlas Shrugged? I dunno about you, but to me a film based on an interminable novel that consists almost entirely of position-paper wielding characters (and occasionally the narrator) expostulating a silly philosophical framework and its null-hypothesis strawmen ranks...
Month: April 2006
Finally, the formula for the contemporary GOP has been discovered...
Two brief points about Ryan Lizza's terrific article (free with registration) on no-things-can-actually-get-worse GOP frontrunner George Allen, which will undoubtedly generate an enormous amount of discussion: Since there will be.
Sorry, last Corner today:Shorter Michael Ledeen: If you generals didn't like Rumsfeld's plan in 2003, why didn't you just lead a coup? People who believe in civilian control of the military are such pussies...
Wandering throught the morass that is the Corner revealed this, from our good pal Jonah:PREDICTION [Jonah Goldberg]This is off the cuff, so it should be taken with ample grains of.
Via Matt comes this gem.Given Cliff and Stanley's aptly alarming posts, and the other news that Iran is talking about sharing its nascent nuke know-how with Sudan (where bin Laden.
Since I've already addressed the stupidity of trying to draw broad sociological conclusions based on such data, all I can add to TBogg's analysis of Roger Simon's attempts to make some broad sociological claim about The Left based on claims about relative sales that aren't...
Fascinating.'CAPRICA'From executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick ('Battlestar Galactica'), writer Remi Aubuchon ('24') and NBC Universal Television Studio, this new series is set over a half a century.
Make sure to read Ezra's post on income mobility in the United States. The fantasy that the US has greater income mobility than other Western countries is really quite critical.
I'm sure that this is all just an elaborate mole-hunting operation designed to ferret out disloyal continents:The CIA has run more than 1,000 flights within the European Union since 2001, often transporting terror suspects for questioning overseas, MEPs [Members European Parliament] have said.The MEPs began...
Interesting.French Budget Minister Jean-Francois Cope has announced the launch of an online game for the country's taxpayers to have a go at balancing the books.The game, called Cyberbudget, will launch.
Shorter Verbatim FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock, justifying the political denial of over-the-counter status for Plan B: "...we could not anticipate, or prevent extreme promiscuous behaviors such as the medication taking.