Some notes of caution on these sentiments from Matthew Yglesias... Note that if you want to go to law school, getting good grades in college is probably important. If you want to be a writer, then writing stuff that’s interesting and getting professional writers to...
Month: April 2011
Misrata's current situation remains a very large problem in any de facto partition scheme: The Libyan port city of Misrata was one of the first urban areas to fall to.
Gbago gone: Forces of president-elect Alassane Ouattara arrested outoing President Laurent Gbagbo at his residence in Abidjan on Monday, after an assault on the compound that involved French and U.N..
Since I'm in that minority that still gets the print edition of the New York Times, I saw this exercise in grotesquely immoral self-refutation from Bill Donahue. A couple all-too-representative samples: A common belief, fostered by the media, is that there is a widespread sexual...
John Thompson has an eloquent reply to a bare majority of the Supreme Court's appalling recent contention that nobody should be held accountable if prosecutors decide to railroad an innocent.
The Joker, of course, has a theory: But his version, from Alan Moore's The Killing Joke, is only technically correct. Bruce Wayne did have "one bad day," yes, but it.
Pierre Celis, who died yesterday, is something of a legend in the beer world. The basic story is that he unilaterally resurrected the style of Belgian Witbier back in the mid 1960s, eventually sold out, and recreated the brewery in Austin, Texas, in the early...
The Democrats signed off on this as part of their vaunted compromise rolling over and playing dead? The following is buried at the end of the NYT story linked above:.
As some Goldstein lickspittles reminded us recently, Jack Cashill may very well be more serious than Saint Ryan himself. In related news, Althouse remains birther-curious. You see, regardless of the.
R.I.P. See Kenny, Zoller Seitz, Edroso, and this oldie-but-goodie from Dargis. Roy's post, with its account of Lumet's setting of Newman's summation in The Verdict, has many insights but I especially like this one: His work was uneven, but I don't know that we'd have...
In her latest post on lawfare, Carvin outs me for being the audacious, asymmetric tactician I suppose I am, and attempts to win readers' hearts and minds with a combination.
For your pleasure: Long, interesting post from Dmitry Gorenburg on conflict at the Russian Academy of Military Sciences. I suspect that Hamas and Hezbollah will be delighted by the opportunity.