Friday Cat Blogging... Edgar
Month: January 2006
Although I was mildly surprised that Tony Blair admitted on BBC 2 that he smacked his older children, that statement was hardly, to me, the most interesting part of the.
The expansion of the blogosphere continues unabated. Check out The Reaction with Michael Stickings, and Blue Force, a defense blog including Armchair Generalist, Stygius, and others.
The Liberals, in the midst of what looks like a dismal bellyflop into the upcoming election, came out with an attempted debate bombshell: eliminate Canada's "notwithstanding clause," which permits provincial and federal governments to override certain judicial interpretations of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms....
Yglesias on the Stiglitz study:They make a solid case for a $700 billion to $1,000 billion direct cost plus some fairly uncertain macro consequences. Of course, on the one hand.
Altmouse liveblogs the Alito hearings, after her incisive take on Alito's opening statement.(This really is a remarkably good parody. It's hard, because Althouse is so self-paradoic in any case, but.
One thing about the exposure of James Frey's "searing" drug-addiction memoir as a fraud: it's produced some great writing. James Wolcott, for example:I'm just automatically suspicious of every tale of woe that's peddled as a tale of redemption. The whole concept of redemption seems fishy...
There really is something remarkable about Alito using the all-purpose GOP "you hate the troops!" card in order to justify his membership in an explicitly racist and sexist organization that.
Jill at Feministe notes an interesting Townhall discussion of Alito's invocation of Griswold at the hearings, which sees in Alito's argument about the shifting rationales for the right to privacy.
So I made my first visit to Madison Square Garden tonight, and although the outcome was worse for my rooting interests than my trip to the Meadowlands earlier this year, it was a more enjoyable game overall. I had a pretty decent (although not as...
I saw Norah O'Donnell this morning claiming that Alito's support of the "right to privacy" is somehow meaningful. As Nancy Keenan correctly notes:Under the first round of questions from Senator.
The Others freaks me the hell out, even after the fourth or fifth viewing. Part of this has to do with the creepy little girl theme, perfected in Kubrick's The.