If you think eating meat is presumptively bad, skip this post.Yum. Beef. It's what's for dinner -- for tonight at least. For me, and for Frank Bruni too. Last month, Scott (yes, Lemieux) and I went to Peter Luger's. We had a great meal. Super...
Month: September 2007
Matt said recently that he "feels like Clinton is drawing close to checkmating her opponents." Dana reminds us that it's still early; Ezra avers that "it's hard to make up.
Fascinating; I find out that David Brin has a Daily Kos diary and a blog on the same day that I teach David Brin's Thor Meets Captain America in National.
The Habeas Restoration bill failed 56-43; Christy has the tally. Unless I missed one, no Democrat voted "naye," including Nelson, Landrieu, and Conrad. The ever-more-disgraceful Joe Lieberman, of course, did. My question: where exactly is the ongoing "Rebellion or Invasion"? Hopefully the Supreme Court will...
Brad Plumer and Noam Scheiber have a good article about the loathsome GOP corporate lackey Haley Barbour, the kind of "small government" Republican who ensures that any budget deal contains.
Pompeii, 79 CE.The Great Fire of London, 1666Irish Famine, 1840sTangshan Earthquake, 1976Boston Red Sox, 2007?Seriously, I don't think I can watch this shit any longer. If someone could please get.
So Bill Maher is funny sometimes. But for the love of whatever, he has got to stop talking about women. At all. Because he can't do it without demonstrating how much he hates us.Exhibit A: Turns out, breastfeeding women "go Janet Jackson" on everyone whenever...
A good article here about the conflict surrounding a new Planned Parenthood clinic in Aurora, IL. The clinic has been delayed by zoning issues with the local government, which is.
Scott Horton makes the case, which I think is correct. There's obviously no question that Mukasey isn't someone I would prefer to see appointed as AG. But the relevant universe.
This has always been a non-issue for me since I subscribe to the dead-trees edition, but for better or for worse most of the Times website is going to be free again. Actually, although we tend to think of the op-ed columnists, the really good...
So we're not even three full weeks into the semester, and for incomprehensible reasons I already need to submit textbook orders for Spring. I'm reworking the reading list for my.
If the tank doesn't interest you, skip this post. After the dreadnought and the strategic bomber, the tank is probably the most overrated weapon of the 20th century. However, while.