Icky.Prisoners are executed by hanging—a process known to produce "gruesome scenes of slow strangulation and even decapitation." And prisoners sitting on death row don't even know when they'll actually die. No one gives them a date. Prisoners aren't told "this day will be your last"...
Month: July 2006
Three observations on the Douhat's preference of Shyamalan over Nolan, Raimi, and Singer:1. It's not reasonable to dismiss films about comic book characters. Spiderman and Batman have as rich a.
I was happy to see that Criterion has finally issues a good DVD transfer of Edward Yang's magnificent Yi Yi. If you haven't seen it, get it in your Netflix.
Friday Cat Blogging... Stromboli
I think we all knew where Muir was going to go.Alternative Shorter Chris Muir: Anyone who believes that Loving v. Virginia was correctly decided is a nihilist, because not believing.
I'm not sure how this article got through, but apparently the New Republic has fallen into the grip of unhinged Kantian nihilistic blogofascism:But, while all these interpretations may be true.
Shorter United States Army LTC Ralph Kauzlarich: Pat Tillman's parents are only unhappy about the death of their son and the subsequent Army coverup of that event because they aren't Christian.In an interview with ESPN.com, Kauzlarich said: "When you die, I mean, there is supposedly...
Jacob Weisberg has decided that the most critical journalistic task surrounding the Israel-Lebanon War is the absolving of George W. Bush:We do know enough, however, to divide responsibility for the.
I'm sure that everyone recalls this recruitment video for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (you just can't watch it enough, really). At the apparently resurrected Defense Statecraft, Macgyver has assembled.
In April 2005 the USN sank USS America, a Kitty Hawk class supercarrier, off Virginia in order to determine how resilient US carriers were to particular kinds of attacks. In May of this year USS Oriskany was sunk to create an artificial reef. According to...
In justifying the very first veto of his term, which appropriately enough was pretty much the only decent piece of legislation to be passed by Congress since he took office,.
Fer Chrissakes, what exactly did the city of Seattle do to offend the Gods of Officiating? What a year. Well, as a commenter at USS Mariner noted, the bottom of.