Michael Ledeen has a curious way of approaching the social form "accusation":You're going to be accused of meddling anyway, since out there in the real world you are believed to be the leader of the forces of freedom and democracy.Now, when I apply this logic...
Month: June 2009
Self-parody, thy name is PETA. Incidentally, LGM will be accepting no more advertisements from PETA after its relatively innocuous anti-meat ad turned into a Pamela Anderson skin-fest.
The Times (and, well, everybody else) reports that Gordon Brown has backed off his original stance of holding the inquiry into British involvement in the Iraq war in private. Now,.
Wan Juilliams.
Posnanski/James and Neyer discuss, at the usual high level...
...and if this is what a temporary solution to global warming is supposed to look like, my pessimism about the future of everything will earn another wry moment of vindication.Two.
Did this month-old MIT study get much attention when it was released? I don't recall hearing anything about it, and given that it more or less predicts The End of Life As We Know It you would think it would have been bigger news.
This is nothing short of fabulous.Via Majikthise.
...Ta Nehisi Coates.That is all.
The downside of Sebelius joining the cabinet...
Following up on Dave's observations regarding doubts about the health benefits of moderate drinking:(1) The politics of epidemiology are most obvious when you see people treat relatively weak correlations from.
Shorter Verbatim BoBo: "I have been trying to think of some wisdom I have acquired over the past three decades, and I’m drawing a blank."