I’ve seen a fair amount of this lately: The crucial difference between fans of the Red Sox and Cubs and those of the White Sox and Astros is that the latter had the decency to keep their suffering to themselves. The White Sox have gone longer than the Red Sox went without a world championship, […]
Month: October 2005
Media Girl notes that Target is defending its pharmacists when they refuse to fulfill prescriptions for contraception. Great. (It is nice that Kass informed us that female contraception is particularl
Friday Cat Blogging. . . Frankie
World O’ Crap uncovers a real gem from University of Chicago “pro-life” ethicist Leon Kass, lecturing the kiddies in Focus on the Family’s children’s magazine, The Good Old Days When Women Were Bound. Oddly, we have yet another nationally prominent pro-lifer, endorsed by a major pro-life organization, who combines a strong belief in the state’s […]
The editor of The Economist is currently on NPR. Responding to a question from a listener about Alan Greenspan’s role in the Bush deficits, he deflected it by saying that Greenspan is just in ch
While wandering Duck of Minerva, I happened to click on this, a book called The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization by Bryan Ward-Perkins. The Amazon summary reads: Was the fall of Rome a great c
Roger Ailes responds to the hapless Lord Weisberg: Actually, there’s plenty of evidence that Rove and Libby knew exactly what they were doing — why else would they go to such lengths to conceal the fact that they were the sources of such information? If they thought Plame wasn’t undercover, why wouldn’t they pass along […]
I don’t mean to be stubborn, but I do have one caveat to add to the important information that Harriet Miers endorsed the Coathanger Human Life Amendment. Some people have argued that it’s
This is a really good piece, and I think the punchline is particularly important: That the nukes we went in to eliminate did not, in fact, exist is scandal of monumental proportions. It’s not a
Shorter Jonah Goldberg: Despite having never read any Harold Pinter, I’m convinced that his work is just political hackery in the form of art. Of course, this is the aesthetic supported by the NRO, but Pinter is of the left, so there you go. And I trust Terry Teachout’s judgment uncritically, except where it comes […]
Canada gets serious. The Canadian navy is drafting a plan to acquire two large amphibious assault ships capable of transporting thousands of troops and dozens of tanks and trucks across the seas. The
I’m not the sort of man who avoids fried food. Nevertheless, I must admit to being really, really disturbed by Burger King’s Chicken Fries. I haven’t tried this abomination, but I