I should hope that the absurdity of conservative commentary on Afghanistan is self-evident, but to summarize briefly, the Obama administration is currently under wingnut fire for a) under-resourcing the Afghanistan mission, and b) failing to do exactly what Stanley McChrystal wants (even as it, apparently,...
Month: November 2009
Some interesting bits in this Telegraph report from last week:Top British commanders angrily described in the documents how they were not even told, let alone consulted, about major changes to.
Senator Lindsey Graham is censured by the mighty Charleston County Republican Party for -- shock and horrors! -- compromising with the opposition on Cap and Trade.Now, I thought that's what.
At least they weren't armed.
Dave linked to this outburst below. It's worth noting that when American Thinker Robin from Berkeley describes what she calls the "wilding of Sarah Palin," she fails to mention that.
Shorter Verbatim Bernard Henri-Levy: "I am mostly thinking about him: Roman Polanski, who I don't know, but whose fate has moved me so much. Nothing will repair the days he.
Which is unfortunate, because I'm about to call him illiterate. He claims that I argued that Sarah Palin and her supporters are "racist because there were so few non-whites pictured in the available photos." I did nothing of the sort. My claim, as you can...
Although I regretted missing out regular Thanksgiving meal with the superb hosting of regular readers MJD and JRD, we for the first time hosted Thanksgiving for my girlfriend's family. My.
Elisha and Miriam
The Guardian published the NME's list of the best 50 albums of the last decade a few days ago, and I've been meaning to comment. The Strokes are over-rated -- they were highly derivative, rather like Beck was highly derivative ten years prior. My favorite...
Instead of playing "Count the Non-White People!" with Sarah Palin's photographs of her appearance at Fort Bragg, I will present some statistics about the base and surrounding community:White Non-Hispanic (52.9%)Black.
In the 16th and early 17th centuries, English Puritans developed a method of Biblical and historical interpretation known as "typology." In its simplest form, typology involved the discovery of Old.