While I spent the evening trying to keep my dog from licking her wound from yesterday's expensive knee surgery, Ace O. Spades -- the blogosphere's greatest living heterosexual -- was wringing out the jizz mop and calling it a day after thinking about Scott Thomas...
Month: July 2007
I am in Washington D.C. this weekend for the American Constitution Society conference, so blogging from me will be sporadic for a couple days. However, for your reading pleasure I.
A flashback from GFR about the NYT reporter who implied that Foer had some doubts about whether "Scott Thomas" was a soldier: apparently she was responsible for one of those.
The phrase "ad hominem attack" acquires new meaning... The primary evidence against Beauchamp is, uh... I'm not sure. They think he's kind of a loser, and since Americans don't do such things, he must be lying.Look, I have no idea what Private Beauchamp experienced in...
Via Jessica and Yglesias, a sad reminder of how far we haven't come. In fact, of how far we've regressed:
Scott Thomas issues a defense of his TNR Diary. The fact that he's willing to open himself up to the inevitable wingnut smear jobs does give me more confidence in.
Poverty is bad for your health. And if the Bush Administration has it's way, it'll stay that way.A bipartisan coalition in Congress has agreed to raise the budget for S-CHIP, the joint federal/state program that provides health insurance for millions of American kids who are...
To follow up on Matt and Ezra, another angle to run at it from is to apply the logic to the civil rights movement. If one takes the Rauch/Brownstein argument.
The Yankees will be in a playoff spot by early-to-mid August. Sucks, I know, but what can I tell you. A couple of other post-all-star-break notes:Despite his truly historic season.
Adam Kotsko offers as a "thought experiment" a heighten-the-contradictions scenario that would result in the "liquidation of the Democrats." And as with all such scenarios, there are several missing links in the causal chain -- which goes, roughly, from "electing a few social democratic members...
Ulrich Muehe, the Stasi agent in The Lives of Others, has passed away. I had no idea he was sick, but apparently he's been suffering from stomach cancer.Rest in peace.
From someone at CU:The one thing that makes me feel OK about this, is that our faculty peers have found him [Ward Churchill] guilty of academic misconduct serious enough to.