Generally, the assumption that a tribute album will suck is as safe as assuming that a David Brooks column will be insipid hackery, and the rare exceptions are not likely to include “Werewolves of London” being essayed by Mr. Adam Sandler. But still, this is pretty tempting. Dylan doing “Mutineer”? And, especially, the Pixies doing “Ain’t […]
Month: October 2004
Today, I showed The Battle of Algiers to my Military Intervention class. I was thinking about skipping out; a film doesn’t really require my presence beyond an intial hit of the “play̶
Maybe Ted Barlow is being a bit unfair–why look at this gem of insight today from Mickey Kaus: Prodigal star Nation columnist Christopher Hitchens has returned to that magazine’s pages w
It has been duly noted that John Kerry recently received the influential and crucial endorsement of Joss Whedon (a moment of silence, please, for Jonah Goldberg, as his “conservatism is ascendent in pop culture” thesis is dealt yet another devastating blow). Abu Aardvark makes the case, more or less convincingly, that we all should have seen […]
Brad and Matt are having a conversation that I absolute must comment on. My inner nerd demands it. Brad Delong, thinking outside the box, concludes that Neville Chamberlain made a mistake in standing
People who let their cell phones ring during a movie? Scum. Students who let their cell phones ring during class? Slime. A Lecturer who lets his cell phone ring while showing “The Manchurian Can
Alex “Chop Whiney” Rodriguez, subsequent to his straight-outta junior league T-Ball cheap shot in Game 6, wondered why you can bowl over a catcher but why “his ploy was illegal.” An irony he’ll be able to ponder all winter. The umpires “changed the momentum.” Sure, Alex, it’s all everyone else’s fault. Look, when you do […]
Fred Kaplan had a characteristically excellent article in Slate yesterday. He argues that no “military transformation” has actually occured during Rumsfeld’s tenure at the top of th
After the first set of arguments in Brown v. Board of Education, the segregationist Chief Justice Fred Vinson (who voted for upholding Plessy) suddenly passed away. Justice Felix Frankfurter told on
Thank you for underlining the extent to which the Yankees’ soulless corporate conformity sucks. Yours sincerely, Scott
Giovanni Sartori, in the October 2004 issue of PS: Political Science and Politics: Where is political science going? In the argument that I have offered here, American-type political science (to be s
I know Randy Marsh has a tight strike zone and everything, but belt-high pitches right down the middle of the plate do tend to be called strikes. Please return to the dugout, where a nice cooler of sh