At this blog and in other venues, I have for a long time tried to warn America about the robot menace; the inevitable moment when robots will rise against their creators and, mistaking us for bacon, try to eat us.But have we neglected the monkey...
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Matt makes a good case that John C. Stennis is the worst American ever to give his name to a major capital ship. Any thoughts from our resident naval antiquarians.
WTVQ 36 Action News! Hopefully they'll put up the clip; I went with the jacket and no tie to emphasize my academicitude. They contrasted me with a very nice old.
Part IPart IIIn World War II, submarine duty proved among the most deadly lines of work. Roughly 28000 German sailors died on U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic, from a total force of 40000. 3500 Americans died on submarines, the highest percentage of any...
Mark Halperin, trying to fill column space while saying nothing at all:Case in point: Our two most recent presidents, both of whom I covered while they were governors seeking the.
UCLA has 38 yards on 33 plays. Their quarterback is 0-7 with an interception. And they lead the Ducks 6-0 at the half.I'm glad this game isn't on television, because.
Who knew?The closest I have ever gotten to the secret and inner Tolkien was in a casual conversation on a snowy day in Shelbyville, Kentucky. I forget how in the world we came to talk about Tolkien at all, but I began plying questions as...
Ace Rothstein:The cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it.
While we're on the topic of Slate contrarians, here's Mickey reacting to the Korb/Katulis/Podesta op-ed:When you write a sentence like:the progress being made at the local level often undermines the.
And after all that, nothing. Saletan writes two columns purporting to demonstrate not simply that African-Americans are inherently intellectually inferior to whites, but that liberals who question this finding are anti-science. In other words, the science is so compelling that any argument against the racial...
Today we started a mini-simulation for a course at Patterson. This isn't the larger spring policy simulation, but rather a smaller exercise designed to facilitate group work and presentation skills..
What's the general consensus on the relative strength of Wire seasons? I'm halfway through season 3, and I think I like it the best of them all so far. Then.