Last week M. LeBlanc at Bitch Phd wrote about the latest battle in the War against the homeless--Chicago cracking down on "continuous riders" just as the cold of winter settles in. Like M. LeBlanc and Bitch PhD, I was surprised and frustrated by the tenor...
Month: December 2008
I had never realized that Gary Sinise (whose work I very much respect) was a Republican.
Michael Berube sets Peter Singer straight.As an aside, how the heck did Berube slip onto Horowitz's list of dangerous professors, while the nefarious Singer slipped through the cracks? The latter.
Ezra is right; Entourage works best when things go well. I don't know that I agree that this season has been problematic, because of course success after hardship is so much sweeter... I also don't know that the success was improbable, given that Martin Scorsese...
It's being reported that Notre Dame is going to bring back Charlie Weis for a fifth season, despite the fact the team racked up the most losses in any two-season.
I have a piece at Guardian: Comment is Free on the International Security Advisory Board report on China. Long story short, it's Team B revisited.
I agree with Henry and Tim. Bainbridge's critique of Doug Kmiec as Vatican Ambassador has nothing to do with Kmiec's actual policy views, but rather with the fact that Kmiec vocally supported Obama. Bainbridge further argues that Kmiec's support allowed Obama to win over all...
Is Amity Shlaes stupid, dishonest, lazy, or all of the above?As a somewhat-related bonus, this is also good:Paul Krugman Sets the Bar Far too Low......when he says that Keynes's greatness.
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Matt Duss and I diavlog away, touching upon such subjects as piracy, the Clash of Civilizations, turkey, the Sound of Music, and Matt's prospects for replacing Alan Colmes:
Despite their ideological dissimilarity, Stephen Harper seems to be emulating the parliamentary strategery of Joe Clark, which apparently will lead to Canada's left-leaning electoral majority retaking power. A couple notes:This.
Kim du Toit -- winner of the most prestigious blogging award ever -- has apparently tired of blogging. He muses:Somebody wrote to me and said, very graciously, that he now.