Who is America's worst blogger? Some parameters:1. Partisanship cannot, in itself, be evidence of bad blogging. 2. The blogger must be "major" as in commonly read and referrred to.The two names that leap to mind for me are Glenn Reynolds and Mickey Kaus. Reynolds, in...
Month: March 2005
Amanda Marcotte and Roy Edroso find whatever connection Peggy "Mr. Reagan would not have dismissed the story of the dolphins as Christian kitsch" Noonan had with rationality permanently severed.
Matt Duss has an excellent series on Israeli moves to consolidate gains in the West Bank, all happening with nary a peep from the United States. The fox is guarding.
Excellent post from Erik at Alterdestiny on mountain top removal in West Virginia. It takes a mere fraction, maybe 1% or less of the people it used to take to mine coal to do it today. Many residents of Appalachia feel that the coal companies...
It's another stunningly beautiful day in Seattle. To reiterate, January, February, and March usually aren't like this. We're two inches short for January, three inches short for February, and 2/3rds.
...about Terry Schiavo: Nobody will remember any of this in 18 months. Those who do were going to vote Republican anyway. "Saving" Terry Schiavo is probably the least evil thing.
Michael Berube channels Rick Perlstein: Besides, as Rick Perlstein pointed out to me a few days ago, there’s something very, very troubling about the whole Beinart analogy between anti-Islamism and anti-Communism, and “principled realists” ought to be much more wary of it than they are....
Dan Drezner is correct to dispute David Adesnik's claim that George Kennan was a realist. Kennan certainly had much in common with realists. He believed that foreign policy should be.
Via Laura Rozen comes a very nice profile of Kenneth Waltz from the Boston Globe: Waltz is not a crank. He is not a member of an apocalyptic death cult..
Part I Part II Two Royal Navy admirals had a chance to stop, or at least slow, Goeben and Breslau. Admiral Archibald Milne had under his command the battlecruisers Inflexible, Indomitable, and Indefatigable. None could match Goeben, but together they should have been more than...
Irrational Robot has a great post on the "intelligent design" movement. Upside, they haven't made as much progress as they've claimed. Downside, they're trying very hard. The geeky negative angle:.
Ed Kilgore makes an excellent point: If supporting the "culture of life" in one case in Florida requires an emergency congressional session, then perhaps when John Bolton's nomination for ambassador.