Month: August 2006
Did I miss something, or has Jacob Weisberg curiously disappeared since his anti-Lamont tirade two weeks ago? Usually he posts to Slate pretty regularly, but I haven't seen anything lately..
Apparently, this Bernard Lewis article about the horror Iran was going to unleash on 8/22--whose only distinction to rational people was managing to look foolish even by the standards of.
In between seriously problematic paragraphs, Edward Luttwak makes (or, perhaps I should say shows the way to) a couple of interesting points. Luttwak wishes to draw into the question the.
The biggest problem with the term Islamofascism has always seemed to me that it conceptually unites groups of people who ought not be put under the same umbrella. When hawks.
In the comments to a post about some ev-psych wankery at the Freakonomics blog, Belle Waring has uncovered someone taking "Nice Guy" self-pity to quite remarkable depths. A taste (and.
Yesterday morning, a colleague with mild tendencies towards neo-conservatism pointed, in irritation, to Ken Pollack's article in the Washington Post. "It's as if," the colleague noted, "he hadn't written a.
Thoughts on the Shatner Roast? I haven't watched the whole thing, but the parts I've seen were pretty funny. I'm pretty skeptical about the comedy value of the "roast" format,.
143 years ago today, a guerrilla group called Quantrill's Raiders rolled into Lawrence, Kansas. Lawrence was a target of Confederate ire because it had been a center of anti-slavery activity.