Labs already beat me to this profoundly difficult ethical dilemma that Randy Cohen chose this week:Last Christmas, I took my grandchildren to “The Nutcracker,” a ballet I love. My enjoyment was severely marred by the appearance of a black snowflake and then, even worse, a...
Month: December 2006
It's hardly orignal to note that Trudeau's B.D. recovery arc has been superb, the best Doonesbury since... well, in a long time. He's managed to convey the sensitivity of B.D.'s.
Judith Regan canned. Fortunately, this happened after she greenlighted a new book by Douglas Feith, whose thoughts couldn't possibly be more credible in the current context...
With due respect to Juan Cole, the anti-democratic potential in the Tim Johnson situation is structural, and has little if anything to do with the contemporary character of the Republican Party. If a similar but opposite situation developed, I would expect the Democratic governor to...
Here's a question for you academics out there: If the president of your university or college sent you a personal e-mail asking some question or offering some prize, what are.
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck
Surely, as Scott and many others pointed out yesterday, it would be difficult to match wits with the "moral clarity" of Jonah Goldberg on the question of dictatorships and social order. Not even Goldberg, however, would seem capable of arguing that the regime of Augusto...
Ted Barlow emails to remind me that Christopher Hitchens has also constantly made Goldbergesque "Meaningless Horrible Baseline" arguments since he became an apologist for the Iraq war. A Frayster named.
Shorter Daniel Henninger: We're stuck with awful television like The Sopranos and Deadwood because of that damned Supreme Court and its insistence that upholding "generally accepted standards of conduct" isn't.
Nitpicker has the roundup. Next week's LA Times column will defend J-Pod by pointing out that while in retrospect Cinderella Man was really more of a crappy Hallmark movie-of-the-week melodrama whose cliches would have been stale in 1945 than one of the greatest movies ever...
The idea of a screen version of Confederacy of Dunces produces mixed emotions. Although I was initially very skeptical of the casting of Will Ferrell, I've come around a bit.
Dear Santa Claus:This year, could you send all the warbloggers to Iraq?Thank you for your kind consideration.love,dave