Roy has some interesting thoughts about Spielberg and Munich. I've never hated Spielberg the way in which many people of similar tastes (I believe we're called "pretentious wankers") do. I certainly enjoyed his action movies as a kid, although I haven't seen E.T. since I...
Year: 2006
Glenn Greenwald does most of the work in destroying Assrocket's ludicrously tendentious reading of Youngstown, particularly in his utter failure to explain why Truman's actions were "domestic" and Bush's are.
Yamashiro and her sister Fuso were the first super-dreadnoughts built by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Yamashiro entered service in March 1917, but played no important role in World War I..
Shakes is right, and it should be noted that Yglesias called this last year, to much skepticism here and elsewhere. Ashcroft, in fact, was a far better AG than Alberto Gonzales. The worst part of Ashcroft's tenure--his awful ordering of priorities--have been carried over or...
Shorter National Review: MLK would have been an awful rabble-rouser, except that we wasn't a good enough public speaker to actually rouse the rabble. He should have taken some courses.
Ah, the first post of the New Year's--happy 2006 to you all.Somebody suggested in comments that the really pathetic thing to do on New Year's would be to have taped.