Taking the war over The Shape That Hates America to new depths of insanity, John Rawls’ idiot son Alec has come up with a sheer masterpiece of wingnuttery. According to Rawls–a virulently misogynst crank who claims that if you don’t believe that the best way to fight terrorism is to divert resources from fighting terrorism […]
Month: January 2006
Leaving soon for conference in Steyning, West Sussex. Blogging may be light, depending on connectivity. Will post pictures accompanied by trenchant observations when possible.
Chile was the final entrant into the South American battleships race. Chile ordered Almirante Latorre and Almirante Cochrane from Armstrong-Whitworth in 1911. The ships were very similar to the excell
I hate “spoiler alerts” because they detract from our ability to carry out meaningful discussions of movies and television. Nevertheless, I make allowances for this modern age that we live in. However, if, like someone I recently conversed with in Seattle, you consider learning that the ape dies at the end of King Kong to […]
BSG Blogging I BSG Blogging II Political relevance aside, the new BSG is just a damn fine show. The twenty-seventh hour screened last night, and, for my money, the twenty-seven hours thus far compare
It is, indeed, about the ingredients. Stop at Whole Paycheck on the way home after a movie, and one can make even a Friday night pathetically spent at home watching a regular-season NHL game tolerable
Military procurement is a disaster. Incidentally, this is why a free press is critical in times of war. Let’s see if Fox News picks up this story. My guess is no; anything that might reflect poorly on the brass or the administration is too much for the tender ears of America. This is not to […]
BSG Blogging I The Cylons of the new Battlestar Galactica aren’t quite like any other science fiction race I’m familiar with. DJW once told me that he hated Star Trek: First Contact (one o
I see that Mallard Fillmore is making Mickey Kaus his liberal strawman in his inevitable attack on Brokeback Mountain. (Maybe Tinsely is still permanently scarred by a past in which he was a cabdriver
Not that it will matter to Schmittian conservertarians or people of the Althouse “all that matters is whether he will restrict individual rights competently” school, but a systematic Knight-Ridder study (via FL) finds that Alito somehow virtually never finds a Fourth Amendment claim that he likes: As the Bush administration defends its right to eavesdrop […]
Friday Cat Blogging… Frodo and Pip
While I generally don’t see any value in the use of the term “chickenhawk,” like Tom Tomorrow I’m certainly willing to make an exception for people who think that cutting-and-p