Month: January 2011
I arrived back on the island where I am currently based "yesterday" morning (January 11). I slept seven hours "last night", awaking at 11pm (GMT). I lecture in two hours.
Via Ian Millhiser, I am shocked and appalled by this un-American passage in Antonin Scalia's solo dissent today: The canon against superfluity is not a canon against verbosity. When a.
Sara Mead and Tom Scocca make a lot of good points about Amy Chua's dislikable, widely-discussed piece on "Chinese mothers." Aside from the stereotyping and assertions-without-evidence, what strikes me most.
Shorter Jon Stewart: A) It's not at all clear that political vitriol caused the Giffords’ shooting. B) Acknowledging that doesn’t mean political vitriol isn’t a problem in this country. C).
A mere PAC-10 partisan, I must leave it to Farley to deliver the true post-mortem, but I empathize especially because that's exactly how a team I rooted for would have.
As someone who teaches rhetoric, I can only say that I've been profoundly disappointed in the quality of the conversation about the assassination attempt on Gabrielle Giffords. Despite all the.
Irin Cameron with a wonderful dismantling of Caitlin Flanagan. Of course, "unproven gender essentialism and barely-disguised contempt for a woman with whom she purports to be empathizing" is an accurate.
On Friday evening, InksptsGulliver and I got into a long argument about the appropriate role of ideology in defense policymaking, and consequently of the meaning of “progressive” and “conservative” defense.