Alright, so I am now in the city after an entirely intraweb-free week in the Vallee Du Rhone, tanned, rested, and carrying several bottles of Chateauneuf-Du-Pape (personal to customs agents: exactly two! Scout's Honor!) I am shocked to log on and find that Alito has...
Month: June 2006
Read, if you haven't already, A.O. Scott's wonderful meditation on The Searchers. I've written about the Searchers before, and I'm not the only one; Lance and Wolcott had a back.
This post is primarily for that segment of our readership who are students, teachers, or textbook authors/publishers for High School American Government courses.Students: Listen carefully. I have reason to believe.
DJW and I are in Fort Collins, again grading AP exams. Little has changed since last year, although I understand that next year we'll be moving to Daytona, which promises to be rather new.Some thoughts:There's something mildly amusing about how all the AP readers become...
I gather from the headlines that there's already been plenty of discussion of the Supreme Court's decision regarding the knock-and-announce rule, but I'll add my voice to the chorus.I don't.
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck and Nelson
A couple of weeks ago the Cunning Realist wrote:This has probably been discussed at great length elsewhere, and undoubtedly will strike some as a dumb question. But before tonight was anyone besides me unaware that U.S. citizenship is not a requirement for military service?Which reminded...
Yglesias is politely engaging Jonathan Chait, who suggests Leiberman should be supported not because he's a good Senator, but in order to strengthen the position of unrepentent pro-Iraq war Democrats.
My dear friend Aspazia at Mad Melancholic Feminista, as she so often does, asked a very interesting question,"when lefties talk about sex with students, even the administrators, they tend to.
It looks like feminists of various stripes are back to debating Linda Hirshman's claim that women of a certain socioeconomic status who opt to stay home and raise their kids are traitors to the movement: Quisling's for Patriarchy, if you will. To my surprise, Lizardbreath...
I鈥檝e just finished reading the article Lizardbreath links to at the TAP by Hirshman. There鈥檚 much to admire there, and more than a few lines that make me want to.
Over at Unfogged (which, for the most of you who don't hang out there, isn't so much a blog as a vigorous comment section with a vestigal blog anchoring it).