Speaking of frivolity... VAN v. NSH: There are two ways you could look at Vancouver's issues in round 1. One way is that you have to worry about a team that was up 3-0 and needed OT in game 7 to eke out a win,...
Month: April 2011
As someone with no interest in and political disdain for the royal wedding I found this chart funny, but that isn't to say that Matt isn't right. What you find.
When outlining "The Case for Cursive," a journalist ought to provide an actually compelling argument. The best substitute, it seems, runs something like this: Might people who write only by.
Excellent in-depth discussion of the Stryker Brigade in the New York Times. What's great about this piece is that the author goes into considerable depth to understand the structural context behind the so-called "Kill Team"'s campaign of recreational murder against civilians, and resist the seductive...
The week after I tried to offer a limited defense of Scalia in comparison with his reactionary brethren, his opinion in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion could have been written by.
Shorter Differently phrased Ann Althouse: "I don't understand how the Times can say that the entirely baseless controversy about the place of birth of the candidate in the 2008 election.
Blast this as your candidate walks on stage, a smile plastered across his face and both birds flipped high as can be to the outraged, couch-bound conservatives watching him on FOX:
...going Galt. Or, as Roy puts it, "[i]t seems the perpetual motion machine runs on whine."
I think this is an important point: arguments that various Democratic proposals on health care were once "Republican proposals" are misleading, in the sense that it's not as if Republicans enacted them when they controlled government or anything. It's misleading to imply that the Republicans...
This year's Patterson reading list has been released: What do policymakers have to read in order to be "informed" on international affairs -- or just to be thought of as.
R.I.P.: Gerard Smith. Phoebe Snow. Poly Styrene. ...more from Roy, who like a commenter reminds me that I forgot to mention Hazel Dickens. Harlan County, USA is available on.