Charlotte Allen using a Young Americans for Freedom list of college courses it doesn’t like to churn out a quick, lame, and uninformed op-ed is a well-worn and extremely tired routine. (Michael Berube‘s new book does a great job with the genre, especially the use of course titles without any discussion of actual course content.) […]
Month: January 2007
Let’s say you’re a prominent blogger with a well-known shtick of alternating boot-licking Republican hackery with claims that anyone who disagrees with you about anything is excessively &#
Sorry for the light blogging; I am furiously rushing to finish a couple of syllabi that I should have finished weeks ago. The problem with winter break is that it ends…
I’m always up for some Strunk & White bashing. [Via U.O.]
The House of Savoy is one of the oldest noble families in Europe. In 1003, Humbert the White Handed was made Count of Savoy, a mountainous region along the modern French-Italian border, in return for
One reason I like football somewhat less than hockey or baseball is that I’ve never been a really big fan of any team. This playoff game, however, is my Maximum Rooting Interest–the team I
Lord Saletan: The political fight over animal cloning is just beginning. It’s a lot like the fight over human cloning, except that the roles are reversed. Right-wing groups and Republican senators fanned fear and ignorance about human cloning; left-wing groups and Democratic senators are fanning fear and ignorance about animal cloning. Moderates on both sides […]
That’s a nice unbeaten streak you’ve got there, Bruins. It’d be a shame if somebody came along and broke it.
The Ole Perfesser is still implying that we haven’t initiated regime change in Iran because of their secret trove of nuclear weapons. Because if the Iraq War proves anything, it’s that the
Pretty old, but check out this Defense Tech post (and linked article) about Iranian efforts to keep the F-14s purchased by the Shah flying. It looks as if, contrary to some previous estimates, Iran has managed to keep a lot of F-14s in combat condition, and may even have substantially upgraded the original technology.
One of the most striking things about my recently departed friend Henry was her lack of basic cat skills. At no point in her eight odd years that I can recall did she ever intentionally scratch or bit
Yglesias [lighlty edited]: The article comes to me via Martin Peretz, whose status as a cosignatory of the [Euston] Manifesto proudly demonstrates what a hollow farce it is to present the document as