I had meant to write about claims that Mel Gibson's anti-Semitism (which wasn't exactly a secret before his recent DUI at any rate) should affect the evaluation of his art (which, for me, couldn't get much lower in any case.) Fortunately, Roy ("though his public...
Month: August 2006
J-Pod: Interesting. Seems to me that in 1982, in Hama, Hafez al-Assad wiped out an uprising against his regime by slaughtering 25,000 over a weekend. And in 1991, Saddam Hussein.
... which makes it all the harder to acknowledge when he nails one on the head. Some choice quotes:I was just in the middle of writing a long and tedious.
What is it about "hawkish" pundits that they can't understand nationalism?In Iraq, the leviathan has somehow managed to give the impression that what previous mid-rank powers would have regarded as a little light colonial policing has left it stretched dangerously thin and bogged down in...
My contrarian cred is established! Seriously, it's a strange world in which any of my empirical analysis would even be considered controversial; as Ponnuru himself recently noted, pro-lifers who want.
I think it's time we dispense with this fiction:I think that [Drum's] reference to "casual genocide" as the preferred strategy of pro-war people is pretty clear, and pretty absurd. Yeah,.
In the light of Pat Gillick being sold several acres of North Dakota oceanfront property by Brian Cashman, Joe Sheehan asks a good question: How's that taxpayer-funded ballpark working out for you, Philadelphia?Yeah, I'm guessing when the taxpayers of Philadelphia were being bilked for the...