Sadie Jones' Small Wars is a novel about British efforts to put down the Greek Cypriot insurgency in the mid-1950s. Jones concentrates on the Treherne family, including Hal, a British military officer, his wife Claire, and their two children. It's not quite right to say...
Month: January 2011
A reader sends along an alternative analysis of the gravesites at Towton: Allow me to caution you to be a bit wary of the conclusions from this particular paper. Whereas.
Has any conference ever lost five bowl games in the same day?
Shorter Col. Mustard: "I believe I'm the millionth person to quote Ted Kennedy's Bork speech as if it was ipso facto beyond the pale, without actually noting anything in it that was inaccurate." What a justice who lost an up-or-down vote has to do with...
It hasn't exactly been getting great reviews: the 1982 version had a plump, red thumbs-up rating of 69% on Rotten Tomatoes, whereas the sequel is at a festering, sickly 49%..
Silver's take is, as always, worth reading. To me, Palin still clearly has a serious chance of getting the 2012 nomination, and the key is point #3. The GOP establishment.