I have been, ah, less than optimistic about the quaility of Reading Outtakes From Persuasive Speech Competitions While Walking In Offices On The Sunset Strip and did not even have my low expectations met when I saw the thing. But while I can't stomach it...
Month: February 2007
Shorter Practically verbatim TIDOS Yankee: "I took a few geology classes 17 years ago, and I'm pretty sure that experience -- in addition to some information gleaned from a website.
Interview in the Frankfort State Journal. They seem to have printed the complete transcript of the tape recording; apparently I need to add more punctuation when I speak. I'm also.
"The Question Settled" is a print by the E.B. and E.C Kellogg Company, which ranked among the more popular producers of mass-market illustrations. The image, which dates from either late 1864 or early 1865, depicts "Old Abe" -- the white cat -- displacing "Jeff [Davis]"...
Last night we screened Red Dawn at the Patterson School, first of the Spring Film Series. Red Dawn is not... a good movie. Most of us found it entertaining, although.
Antonin Scalia has done us the favor of explaining the equal protection theory behind the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore. (Which is handy, since the per curiam opinion.
I'm afraid that an otherwise good blogger who shall not be named approvingly cited this "classic" passage from Camille Paglia, the Mickey Kaus of "public intellectuals," explaining why she "was probably the only leading [sic] feminist [sic] to have believed Paula Jones right from the...
Next time I lecture on the various Indian wars from the second half of the 19th century, I must remember to read this little bit of history from the Great.
It's the 39th anniversary of this scene, made famous in a photo by Eddie Adams. The image depicts the summary execution of Nguyen Van Lan -- an NLF fighter --.
Atrios joins the somewhat puzzling backlash against one of the year's best films. I would disagree on two counts:Apart from the very superficial analogy with the hidden utopia, I just don't see the comparison with Atlas Shrugged at all. That framework isn't terribly original; what...
This Jonah Goldberg joint is so incoherent it's hard to know where to begin with it. Well, I think here:Clark's comments, predictably, earned him denunciations from Jewish groups. After all,.
Eating disorders are becoming more prevalent among men as well as women:Contrary to the long-held belief that anorexia and bulimia are female afflictions, the first national survey on eating disorders.