OK, Chris Matthews is is a creepy sexual harasser. And his show contains virtually no useful content (well, unless Ezra is on.) But on the other hand, he has to stay on the air because he gets such incredibly high ratings! Er, maybe not. (Maybe...
Month: August 2007
It should hardly surprise anyone to learn that the Foreign Affairs piece "authored" by Giuliani is in fact an enormous load of crap, a cut-and-paste job that blends the most.
Phil Rizutto has passed away; in an ironic twist of sabermetric fate, cutting edge defensive statistics suggested that his election to the HOF wasn't the pressure-politics travesty it always seemed.
No matter what else happens in this world, it's oddly reassuring to know that you can always count on Fred Barnes to be the most abject administration lickspittle imaginable. (In its own perverse way, it shows more intergrity than people who acted like him for...
The Yazidi are a small sect of Kurdish speakers whose religion predates Islam and Christianity. Their holiest city is Mosul. Adherents, who number less than a million (and probably considerably.
What's worse: Camille Paglia's ideas, or her prose?Bonus question: what exactly is Salon thinking by paying her to write for them in 2007?
Cara at the Curvature has an interesting post up about women who kill their newborn infants or who allow them to die from neglect. Neonaticide, of course, is nothing new. In Eicha, the Book of Lamentations, which is read on the Jewish day of mourning...
Welcome to the new narrative. Until the next round of Iraqi public opinion surveys appear, we're going to be hearing a lot of evidence-free assertions about how the people whose.
Robert Kaplan's Atlantic article on the B-2 is an embarassment, both for himself and for the Air Force personnel that he interviewed. It's all fine and well to find a.
I think Andrew J. Bacevich sums it up well: "The cult of Petraeus exists not because the general has figured out the war but because hiding behind the general allows the Bush administration to postpone the day when it must reckon with the consequences of...
Although this isn't quite the Atrios link he's craving (to put it mildly), Yglesias has a good point about the frequent indisinguishability of the arguments of "hawks" and (at least.
Jack Balkin and Eugene Volokh duked it out yesterday on BloggingHeads in what Balkin calls the "Bill of Rights Edition" of Blogging heads. They take on the First and Second.