Baltar is on the case.Going to be in Louisville, Saturday night.
Month: October 2006
Amanda Marcotte calls our attention to this excellent piece by Stacy Schiff, who debunks claims that Susan B. Anthony was a supporter of abortion bans. I find it particularly interesting.
Pithlord attempts to answer the unanswerable question of how people can believe that abortion is a serious criminal offense, but that the person most responsible for the act should be.
The presumption of male privilege is rarely declared so openly as when ignorant people begin yodeling about Title IX, which Congress passed in 1972 to counteract the self-evident gender disparities throughout the education system. Consider the latest cry for gender equity from E.M. Swift of...
About this awful HufPost article, Feministing collectively says all that needs to be said, with an Abstract Nonsense chaser. But it makes one useful contribution--pushing Ann Althouse to a level.
Everybody gets a swing at VD Hanson.There's more truth about the war in Iraq in the worst paragraph Tom Ricks ever wrote, on his worst day as a reporter, than.
One of Jackie Fisher's goofier schemes involved a trio of light cruisers armed with enormous weapons. The idea was that shallow draft ships with heavy guns could operate in the Baltic and support landings on the German coast. To this end, the Royal Navy constructed...
Rodger asks, "How would readers feel about adding these sets of questions to graduate school comprehensive exams in international relations?"Some powers proudly announce their production of second and third generation.
A homerun on an 0-2 pitch to...Jeff Suppan? Christ, he's terrible. (But at least he's a quick worker!) Obviously, a long way to go, but...Alas, for coverage of Game 2,.
Best known for The Battle of Algiers, Pontecorvo died yesterday in Rome. I watched this film again this past summer, a delayed reaction to this post written by Rob a year ago. The "Three Women/Three Bombs" sequence -- from which this clip is taken --...
Not surprisingly, the recent Lancet study has lead to a plague of unremitting hackdom. One of these hacks, however, has proudly claimed his rightful title. I give him points for.
In response to my claim that the exemption of women from punishment under laws banning abortion is fatally incoherent, a commenter here (as a TAPPED commenter did earlier) invokes Ronald.