Ever since I was a little kid, I have dreaded the first day of a new semester. There's some joy to it: the new school supplies, the anticipation of actually liking my classes. But there's also anxiety and the disappointment of a vacation's end.So, today...
Month: January 2008
The Decider doesn't understand why the US and its allies in World War II couldn't have bombed Auschwitz and, he assumes, saved thousands of lives. Here, Bush is invoking a.
Mithras has dug up more examples of Pat Oliphant misogynist war on Hillary Clinton. I think I need a shower. And I don't think he'd be able to keep his.
I suppose we would be obligated to link to the post because of the title alone, but Spackerman does a good job in pointing out the feeble response of the NYT public editor to the hiring of someone who quite recently said that his new...
I yield in nobody in my hatred of the Cowboys, but the "why did Tony Romo go to the beach with a woman inexplicably seen as a platonic ideal of.
Last week, I recorded a Bloggingheads dialogue with Eli Lake. Does this make me a hypocrite? I prefer not to think about it in those terms...
With an enormous amount of writing to do but three sporting events of interest, I decided to use the predictive powers for which I am justly famous and take my laptop to a cafe during the crappy-looking Colts/Chargers game -- bringing a radio to listen...
Via Danger Room, the Army needs rockers:Professional Celebrity Rock Music Band, group not to exceed seven people for tour of FOB's [forward operating bases] in Kuwait and Afghanistan for February.
Caitlin Flanagan.Or Pat Oliphant. Wow.Update by bean: As the Germans would say, two blockheads, one thought.
Caitlin Flanagan, she of the career-woman hating hypocrisy, continues to get bigger stages from which to spew her candy-coated reactionary guck (she used to be one of the only female staff writers at the New Yorker). Today's venue: the New York Times, which is really...
Steven Landsburg shows up in comments at Delong's to defend his idiotic article. It was a pretty feeble effort, to be frank, until he took it up a notch with.
While I listen with concern as the Pats' defense makes another team look better than it actually is, I'm going to try to maintain a sense of perspective by thinking.