Submitted without comment, the opening grafs of a NYT "Homes" section article:FOR some people, the most elusive aspect of owning a vacation home that sits beyond big-city borders isn’t finding the time to enjoy it. It’s finding someone to service the deluxe appliances inside.“We called...
Month: January 2007
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck
Shorter Glenn Reynolds and Don Surber: "Only Luddites believe that drug companies should disclose payoffs to doctors and advertising; everyone knows that if drug companies didn't make unlimited profits from.
China has destroyed a satellite, joining Russia and the United States as the only countries capable of both putting objects in space and blowing them up. Some angles:Deterrence: First and foremost, this looks like a deterrent move aimed at the United States. The US military...
I'm still behind, so it will be a little bit before I can get an arbitrarily numbered film list out (come to think of it, I haven't even done 2005.
When Dave Noon came on board, he sent me Imperial Life in the Emerald City as a gift. I was inspired...
OK, so the New York Times publishes a monumentally idiotic (and egregiously sexist) article about the fashion choices of female political leaders. No allegedly seriously blogger (with a tendency to invoke claims of sexism, if only as a spurious club to attack liberal opponents) would...
In TAPPED comments, Bob Somerby directs is to this 2002 op-ed from Virignia's newly elected Senator:Other than the flippant criticisms of our "failure" to take Baghdad during the Persian Gulf.
I note here that Al Gore's pre-war remarks hold up rather better than the predictions of the war's cheerleaders, despite attempts to claim that everyone was equally wrong. Atrios does.
Ezra has some interesting observations on inadvertent learning and the blogosphere. By getting our news predominantly from blogs and online sources, he suggests, we run the risk of missing out on articles or discussion tangential to our focus but nonetheless interesting. I can certainly see...
Which entity poses a greater threat to civil liberties?(a) an administration that has detained foreign "terrorists" without trial for more than five years; mustered law enforcement agencies to surveil the.
Not so fondly, Loomis remembers 18th-century serial rapist and diarist William Byrd II. But since Byrd clearly didn't rape every woman with whom he came into contact, we should resist.