Shorter Christian Smith: "If academic freedom means anything, it's that published work should be completely beyond criticism, even when a researcher draws inferences from data that the data plainly cannot support and writes popular articles further defending these unsupportable inferences. Why won't his hardcore leftist...
Month: July 2012
If the Romney campaign wants to run on an open platform of white supremacy (oh I'm sorry "Anglo-Saxon heritage"), I say that's the greatest thing since, well, ever. Nothing screams.
So let's play some rock n' roll.
Two stories on unconventional weapons in Syria. First, CJ Chivers explains why IEDs matter a lot in the Syrian context: This is where the I.E.D. fits in. Once the armed opposition mastered the I.E.D. and spiked with bombs much of the very ground that any...
According to Big Hollywood, "Rapper Ice-T [says] he'll give up his guns when everybody else does." According to "Rapper Ice-T" in the same interview, only a few seconds later, "[t]he.
Last night, I followed an interesting conversation between Corey Robin and Michael Cohen on Twitter. Two people I respect a lot though they differ ideologically in places. The subject: whether.
The opening paragraphs of Anna Breslaw's...we'll call it a "review" of Breaking Bad are so jaw-droppingly inhumane, historically erroneous and offensive it's hard to imagine any criticism astute enough to redeem them. But what further damns them is that her transparent misreading of...
The first thing that I read this morning was an article insisting that "[t]he Sexual Revolution [had gotten] more totalitarian ... [b]ecause Chick-fil-A executives support the traditional family." Please respond.
Because liberal fascists have taken over our beauty pageants, conservatives have decided to start their own Miss Conservative Pageant. Never mind that many liberals are more or less disgusted by.
Yes I would, Kent. When the rat-muscled cyborg jellyfish rise up and devour your loved ones, you can thank me for at least trying to sound the alarm.
Sally Ride indeed blasted through the space ceiling for women. Her death is a sad day. It's made even sadder by the fact that despite her pioneering past, she couldn't.
Very Return of the Jedi. It's not nearly as dark or accomplished as its predecessor, and it descends into maddening silliness at times, e.g. every time Bane "opens" his "mouth.".