Since everyone appears to be thinking about nukes this week, I thought I might pass along part of an e-mail sent to me today by a former student who is now attending graduate school somewhere within driving distance of the Nevada Test Site. She ventured...
Month: October 2006
I normally shy away from plugging our advertisers, but check out the Kentucky Equality Federation (ad on the right). They seem to be doing some good work on domestic violence.
In light of the new study of deaths caused by the War in Iraq, Sam reminds us of this pair of classic posts by Daniel Davies, debunking the know-nothing attempts.
No, seriously:I'll take neat printing over sloppy cursive any day, and -- take it from a guy who's graded a lot of bluebooks -- nearly all the cursive you see is sloppy. It's hard to find someone under 70 with nice, traditional penmanship.Sometimes, I actually...
Following up the maritime theme...The latest thing in maritime circles is the "1000 ship Navy". This isn't an effort to triple the existing USN; the Navy is looking for 313.
Two days ago Kim Jong Il bequeathed a glorious gift on the Navy and the Air Force. Because the Army is deeply engaged in Iraq, it has been requesting additional.
Or at least I must assume that he does. In another part of the post that Dave refers to below, Hanson declares:My rule of thumb is that almost every current, know-it-all critic, whether a Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Chris Matthews (“we are all neo-cons now”),...
Although the home version of Lawyers, Guns and Money has run into snags at the design stage -- for some reason, combining the principles of "Strat-o-Matic Baseball" with "Battleship" is.
Summarized Hitch: I'm shocked, schocked that the people who planned my beloved war would have anything to do with Henry Kissinger. Why, I thought that they shared all of my.
Having at last unraveled the pneumatics of the internet, Sen. Ted Stevens -- whose full psychotic break I anticipate will occur sometime in 2007 -- offers us all an important history lesson. In Bob Woodward's State of Denial there is evidently an account of a...
Two Fridays ago the Kentucky Canadian Roundtable treated myself and about forty other scholars and students to a day long seminar on Canadian foreign policy. In attendance were Liberal Party.
I should have know better than to write something about Aaron Sorkin when Lance would do the job, but this is exactly right:Whatever. He started as a playwright, he learned.