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...
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 excellent.
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...
BSG Blogging IBSG Blogging IIPolitical 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.
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.
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...
BSG Blogging IThe 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.
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.
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...
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-pasting.