I’m going to be eating one of these tomorrow. It’s unlikely that I’ll survive, so I just wanted to wish everyone well as I stand at precipice of doom. As for my few worldly possessions, I have a lot of reading material and assorted crap in my office that I’m sure my wife and daughter […]
Month: November 2006
I think because I’m listed first, I often get emails meant for other bloggers here at LGM. Today, I’d like to share with you one of those emails: I read your article on Milton Friedman. I
Scott Johnson — whose sense of shame is inversely proportionate to his lack of historical knowledge — invokes the term “massive resistance” in a post from yesterday, which repr
If you love the VD Hanson-bashing genre (and obviously we do), be sure to check out Matt’s contribution. A sample: Rather than view this appreciation, imitation, and innovation as a metaphor for the cultural exchange which has characterized the relationship between Islamic and Christian civilizations just as often as has “clash,” Hanson views this as […]
Wondering how Eric Keroack–the crank Bush as appointed to be in charge of family planning funding–could believe a bunch of non-scientific gibberish (which, to be fair, he expressed–a
Ooh, there’s a novel out about the construction of Dreadnought. John J. McKeon: When a nation has a big technological lead over its potential military rivals, how long can that lead be expected
Wondering where Marshall Wittmann would end up after the termination of his unreadable blog? The answer may not surprise you: Two weeks after winning reelection as an independent due to losing Connecticut’s Democratic primary, Joe Lieberman has hired a former spokesman for the Christian Coalition as his new communications director, RAW STORY has learned. The […]
I’m very torn about this. As a fan, I was very, very pleased to see Jeter not win. The scholar in me sees this as idiocy even by the standards of AL MVP voters, in a league with Gonzalzes over R
A few scattered thoughts on the calliope music emanating from Victor Davis Hanson’s head: (1) Hanson on energy policy: “Strike a deal on energy: allow drilling in Anwar and off the coasts
I was lucky enough to see a beautiful 35mm restoration of La Regle Du Jeu last week. The most obvious modern inheritor of the “open” filmmaking style invented by Renoir, Robert Altman, has died. Altman was a risk-taker, and as is well-known this made him uneven. (Pauline Kael, one of his biggest critical supporters, said […]
I have an article about the Supreme Court and the federal “partial birth” legislation up at TAP. I’d like to add something about the lack of connection between the legislation and an
Fortunately, the Murdoch empire, in a rare manifestation of good taste, has decided not to publish the “book” “written” by an illiterate who chopped off his wife’s head.