I should probably note the shooting at the victory celebration of Pauline Marois, who will be Quebec's first female premier (excellent), will replace Jean Charest (overdue) and seems part of the hardcore ethnic nationalist part of the PQ that wants to hold another referendum on...
Month: September 2012
Someone sent me a link to this and asked me to analyze it: What is this monstrosity? It's a Chris Muir print signed by the following giants of the Blogosphere:.
STUDENT: Can I write an essay about the rising cost of unnecessary oil platforms off the Korean coast? SEK: I don't see why not. But, um, what are you writing.
Hopefully, Obama doesn't actually believe his claim that the Republicans will be more willing to compromise if he wins a second term. Because it's almost certainly not true. And the Republicans aren't even trying to hide it.
Something to consider as the Supreme Court prepares to eliminate the consideration of race -- but not parental status -- in admissions for public colleges: What they almost never say.
That's the effect of the Obama administration's final determination that no official, high or petty, should be held accountable for the Bush administration's institutionalized torture regime. Laws on the books.
It appears that years of breathless warnings of an impending Israeli attack on Iran have had effects beyond making Michael Oren look like a liar and Jeffrey Goldberg a credulous fool: As the Washington Post’s editorial board noted after the IAEA report’s release, “What’s particularly striking about...
Vito Lopez. And let us not forget his enabler Shelly Silver.
As most of you know, my brand of film theory is heavily indebted to David Bordwell and neoformalism. So it should come as no surprise that I believe Bordwell's compilation.
If you haven't had a chance, please take a minute to read Maria's long, wonderful discussion of life with a deployed British soldier. The phone company doesn’t care No, he.
One the one hand, the context provided by this NYT story about the Harvard cheating scandal Rob recently discussed does not...make the accused students more sympathetic: In years past, the.