Because it's not impolite to bump your own post down, I'll throw up this link to me wondering how the titular embiggening happened (or was allowed to happen) on network television.* I'm really looking for mechanics, as I can see the effect, but I'm not...
Author: SEK
We here at Lawyers, Guns and Money are solidly in the Roman Polanski belongs in prison camp, but we are also rank pedants, and the following sentence is something up.
The title should go without saying, but even among intelligent conservatives, sometimes it doesn't: The fact that a homicidal maniac shares your goals doesn't make you responsible for his methods..
The plan for the book I'm co-authoring is to have three or four substantial chapters focusing on 1) rhetoric generally, 2) the history of the medium, 3) the mechanics of comics, and 4) the rhetoric of comics, followed by ten chapters devoted to particular novels...
The Other Scott already noted Glenn Reynolds's tendentious link and Steven Taylor's pithy rebuttal of its underlying "logic," but I wanted to focus on the quotation from Reynolds's reader in.
Take my word for it: you do not want to watch this exchange between Ron Reagan and Pamela Geller. In it, Geller argues that she knows what Reagan Sr. would.
On Monday at 3:09 p.m., Donald Douglas belittled Roy Edroso's feminist credentials for publishing at the Village Voice alongside a link to a bikini burlesque slide-show that a web-editor had slapped on half the site. Edroso is a hypocrite, you see, because he claims to...
Timothy Burke's post on how characters who originated during a particular cultural moment in the first half of the Twentieth Century are incapable of escaping it is compelling: Batman (and.
A number of you have emailed me a link to the latest Jack Cashill article, and although I understand why, I'm not any better equipped to deal with his unsubtle.
The downside of exercises like the one outlined in my previous post is the appearance, in the midst of an already stupendously silly argument, of a sentence like this one:As Obama expressed, socialists and bleeding hearts have warped even sports and rooting into a meritocracy...
(The rest of the post is quite long and requires you already be interested in how to teach students how to acquire a credible academic ethos ... but since a.
When I clipped a prominent conservative for the hubristic assumption that his dinner card is of general interest, it had not yet been brought.When I criticized another for buttressing a.