My guess would be . . . Munich, 1938!What do I win?BTW it would be difficult to top this phrase for some sort of Neo-Con Unselfconscious Irony Award: "Fanatics aren’t deterred by the disapproval of men of moderation or refinement."The funny thing is that the...
Month: August 2008
For alcoholics, angry loners, and the unemployable who happen to have 50 minutes to kill.... Heilbrunn is a little bit more Realist than myself, but I think that we have.
Sarah Blustain powerfully reminds us of what should be obvious: John McCain is a strong opponent of reproductive freedom. He's certainly no moderate on the issue. Make sure to read.
R.I.P.
A brief round-up; I'll have more tomorrow on Russia-NATO and Russia-US relations specifically. At this point the situation in Georgia doesn't seem to have changed radically from what it was.
McCain supporters are obviously going to try and run a good distance with the argument that he was somehow "prescient" on the question of Russian power. I'm not quite sure.
This looks like a surrender to me:Georgia's Foreign Ministry said its soldiers were observing a cease-fire on orders of the president and declared the move in a note handed over to Russia's envoy to Tbilisi.A spokesman for the Russian Embassy confirmed the Georgian note was...
I am told by a source that Izvestiya is claiming that an American working with Georgian forces has been captured by the Russians. Here's the link; as I don't read.
With Rob doing yeoman work covering the real news, I was planning on not commenting, but seeing that MoDo has decided to combine inevitable attacks on the "Breck Girl" with.
The plot to distract the world from the glory of the 2008 Olympic Games continues to unfold:Russia has not accepted Georgia's cease fire offer.Georgia claims to have fully withdrawn from South Ossetia. It's unclear whether the Georgians mean the part of South Ossetia that was...
This is the fifth in a seven part series on the Patterson School Summer Reading List.In Spite of the Gods, Edward LuceThe Utility of Force, Rupert SmithNegotiating Change, Jeremy JonesEnemies.
First they came for the beer pong players:Under newly proposed regulations, Florida students — on or off the campus — would be prohibited from “excessive rapid consumption” of alcohol. The.