Reading this Michael Gordon piece, I'm struck by the extent to which the strategy of allying with Sunni tribes amounts to a renunciation of US state-building aims in Iraq. Put simply, enhancing the prestige and capabilities of multiple non-state actors in Iraq is directly contradictory...
Month: September 2007
I'm way behind on my movie blogging, so the two Apatow movies seem like a good place to start. Asthetically, they're evidently both extremely funny. The first two-thirds of Knocked.
On my way out of Chicago on Saturday, I stopped by a friend's house for breakfast. The fast having been broken, we sat and chatted for a while, since my.
While this certainly doesn't let Dianne Feinstein off the hook for casting the decisive vote to let Southern-Fried Alito Leslie Southwick onto the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, Christy Hardin Smith argues that Judiciary Committee Chair Pat Leahy could have preempted the nomination from coming...
Great stuff from Mark Schmitt about the massive-state-subsidies-for-me-but-not-for-thee rural western version of small-government conservatism and self-reliance, from Larry Craig's likely replacement:A year ago, Risch was the acting governor of Idaho..
Admittedly, you always had to make Little Orphan Annie look like a cynic to think that the Mariners would make the playoffs, but still, even I didn't expect a collapse.
This Jim Rutenberg piece in yesterday's NY Times, like most accounts of Bush's inner life, has just a touch of surreality to it. The piece is based on interviews conducted by Robert Draper for a book that's coming out this week. As The Decider closes...
I was just about to write a post noting that virtually every commenter to this post ignored the actual point of the post and simply returned to argue again and.
I would that it were not necessary, but it appears that there are still those unconvinced of the power of the cat side...
A couple of our commenters made this point well, too, but this post very effectively expresses my puzzlement over various male commenters who seemed to think that having a foot tapped and hand rubbed on the side of a bathroom stall to signal sexual desire...
And the inevitably failed price controls in Zimbabwe are succeeded by...price controls. I'm not sure it's possible for the situation to get more depressing, but it's an incredible catastrophe getting.
Congratulations to blog pioneer, friend of LGM, and edit makin' person Patrick Nielsen Hayden for winning the Best Editor in the Known Universe award!