This is a pretty awesome sort-of-job-market story for aspiring academics. Having sat on more hiring committees than I'd care to think about, I'm still amazed by the capacity of some candidates to duplicate this sort of witless reaction in actual interview scenarios. During one of...
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About the only takeaway from this piece is that Sean Wilentz's hold on the title of Greatest Wanker in the American Historical Profession remains secure for another quarter. The article.
Don Surber, reassuring his readers that everything is OK, no matter how many shoes are tossed at the president.Dude, chill. Iraq was a Soviet client. It just signed a security.
Reprising Andy McCarthy's inane meme, the Pantload thinks Iraqi journalists should at least be grateful enough to recognize that George W. Bush made them free enough to hurl shoes at him. And Bush won't even have them tortured and killed! Then, half-baked and with a...
There's really nothing quite so wonderful as living in a community that's become a regional hot spot for pertussis because hundreds and hundreds of assholes refuse to immunize their children..
The Most Inane Punditry of 2008.I'm glad to say I'd never even heard of some of these items. For example:"Well, here's the other thing that we saw on the tape,.
If Ben Wittes is indeed serving as an adviser to the Obama transition team, let's hope the President-elect has the good sense not to listen to anything he has to say. That Wittes would invoke Qahtani in support of his proposal for expanded detention authority...
Someday, you might encounter someone -- a hopeless naif, or someone who spent most of this decade living off the grid, or perhaps someone recovering from an infestation of brain.
The Ole Perfesser is vacationing in hedge fund Disneyland. After snorkeling about for a bit to assess the deterioration of the marine environment, Reynolds ponders the economic health of the.
Hilzoy doesn't leave much unsaid here.I'm not sure why the Times chose to give editorial space to Ayers, either; the failure of the "palling-around-with-terrorists" narrative proved sufficiently enough that his work in the late 1960s and early 1970s was irrelevant to the outcome of the...
I think we can all agree that this is the most disappointing moment so far in the Obama transition. Richardson's beard-cleansing is a clear sign that the team being assembled.
People are always telling me that I'm only half the man that Rob Farley is, so I'm not bitter that my review of Party of Defeat only earned me half.