While I was away, any number of conservatives who either honestly or passive-aggressively oppose gay marriage tried to sell the idea that the New York Court of Appeals’ upholding of New York’s discriminatory marriage law was really a victory for the side that lost. This argument is familiar from Roe v. Wade, about which it […]
Month: July 2006
Speaking of thugs, Dority vs. Turner has to be the most entertaining bit of television I’ve seen all year. …although Alma vs. Ellsworth gives it a good run. What a great show.
Congratulations to Italy. What a crappy sport.
Nathan and Matt are 100% correct about the badness of the recent decision [actually, I think this is the wrong way of putting it; see update] holding that CleanFlix–a company that sells versions of movies cleansed of all the stuff they warn you about when a movie is starting up at HBO–is engaged in illegal […]
A further note on deterrence theory; the most common critique (but not, as I have argued, the correct critique) is that deterrence theory cannot answer the problem of “madmen”, leaders who
Matt of the Tattered Coat channels the question “Who are your favorite Film Thugs of all time?” Matt’s answers come from film noir; Chinatown and the Set-Up. Here are some of mine. The defin
In the wake of World War I, the Imperial Japanese Navy decided to pursue the “8-8” program, designed to provide Japan with eight modern battlecruisers and eight modern battleships. Because of the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, only two of these ships (Nagato and Mutsu) were completed as designed. The follow-up Japanese designs included the Amagi […]
Matt wonders what I think about Stephen Metcalf’s trashing of the Searchers. I generally (but not unreservedly) like Metcalf, although he certainly does often fall into the Slate contrarian-for-
It’s unclear why Jon Wolfstahl thinks that a deterrent posture on the part of the United States can convince North Korea to give up its missile program; as Bill Petti notes, the deterrent relati
[This article originally appeared in the July 2006 edition of The American Prospect.] The confirmation of two conservative Supreme Court justices and the passage of a draconian abortion ban in South Dakota have again thrown the precarious state of reproductive rights in the United States into sharp relief. It’s a serious moment — which makes […]
Shorter Ann Althouse: As a feminist, I believe that publicly funded hospitals should be able to deny contraception to women almost as strongly as I believe that Sam Alito should be appointed to the Su
Elton summarizes a pathetic pro-Lieberman Los Angeles Times editorial: “It would be a shame if Connecticut voters force a loyal Democrat like Joe Lieberman to run against his own party’s n