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Author: Robert Farley
Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson and Starbuck
Self-parody cannot describe the place that Lee Siegel has gone. I must admit that I now have deep sympathy for anyone working in the offices of the New Republic. Watch.
Happy 107th, Jorge. My favorite Borges is The South.They went outside, and while there was no hope in Dahlmann, there was no fear, either. As he crossed the threshold, he felt that on that first night in the sanatorium, when they'd stuck that needle in...
Uh...Not going spelunking anytime soon. No no no...
I, for one, welcome Pluto's expulsion from the family of planets. Why don't I think Pluto should be a planet? Because it's obviously not a planet; it's very small, way.
Via Ezra, Lee Siegel denounces James Kinkaid for daring to wonder why so many people find the Jon Benet Ramsey story so fascinating. Siegel writesLike a lot of academics who had their heyday in the theory-ridden eighties, Kincaid thinks that the more media attention something...
Did I miss something, or has Jacob Weisberg curiously disappeared since his anti-Lamont tirade two weeks ago? Usually he posts to Slate pretty regularly, but I haven't seen anything lately..
Erik's recent work on the lumber industry in Oregon and Washington serves to remind us that deindustrialization isn't a phenomenon limited the the Rust Belt. Also check out Tuesday Forgotten.
In between seriously problematic paragraphs, Edward Luttwak makes (or, perhaps I should say shows the way to) a couple of interesting points. Luttwak wishes to draw into the question the idea that Hezbollah fighters were particularly brave or competent in the recent war against Israel....
The biggest problem with the term Islamofascism has always seemed to me that it conceptually unites groups of people who ought not be put under the same umbrella. When hawks.
I've been reviewing our archives in an effort to collect our Nader posts and book reviews. This is no mean task; you would not believe how many of our posts.