Wandering the internets while watching the classy Yankee Stadium farewell...Interesting NYT article on the Naval Academy. Most fascinating bit; Barack Obama beat USNA alumnus John McCain 13-7 in an unscientific but interesting poll of upperclassmen.The first time I saw Red River, I wondered whether it...
Month: September 2008
Daniel Inouye:"I want my partner to go back to Washington," Inouye said during a recent campaign appearance for [Ted] Stevens in Alaska. "Our parties don't understand . . . but.
Here, in just 32 words, is a summation of the state of American democracy in our time: "Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable.
Henley:Who imagined that the great opportunity for joint progressive and libertarian advocacy and activism would end up being economic? But that’s where we are. This loathsome bailout plan is a slap in the face to anyone who believes in either free-market principles or social justice.Indeed....
I'm convinced....see also. Or here. Or here. The proposal in current form is a joke.
Bob Bateman writes:True, it was once a powerful force, and feared by NATO. But the salient point is why the Soviet Navy was feared. It was not because it could.
Ezra:My contract with Verizon is up. I want a phone able to do e-mail and internet. Do I go with Cingular and the iPhone2? Stick with Verizon -- whose phone service I like! -- and get a Blackberry? Is there some other smartphone I should...
Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson and Starbuck
Andrew Probert, designer of the Cylons for the first Battlestar Galactica series:“Originally the Galactica motion picture (for overseas distribution) was filmed with dialog explaining that the Cylons were creatures,” Probert.
As one would expect, Stuart Taylor's article about the campaigns is a masterpiece of false equivalence, using such tricks as balancing lies and smears from John McCain's campaign with stupid articles in the New York Times that the Obama campaign had nothing to do with....
On the issue of the citation of foreign law in United States Supreme Court opinions, I think this is the key passage in Adam Liptak's recent article:The controversy over the.
Yglesias, commenting on the stupid rule for resolving electoral college ties, notes that "there’s no good reason to wait until after something stupid happens to pass a constitutional amendment to.