Looks like we have a situation developing between Russia and Georgia. Were I Saakashvili, I probably wouldn’t have picked this fight… …Doug Merrill has an update on the situation, and provides a link to Tblisis based Wu Wei. The Tblisi airport appears to have been bombed.
Month: August 2008
Lazy blogging Friday… This Michael Gordon piece on the “Shia Awakening” is as good as advertised, although Spackerman offers some caveats. David Axe reports that the Iraqi military i
Dan Nexon reaches an unnecessarily modest conclusion at the end of a long post that includes, like, research and math and stuff: [W]hen it comes down to it, I don’t really have much confidence i
In the comments to the Hiroshima thread below, djw asks an excellent question, in response to justifications for dropping the bomb on Japan because doing so arguably saved many more lives than were killed by the atom bombs: King Rat, do you think our definition of war crimes (as codified in the Geneva conventions) should […]
You would think that the latest defeat of Phil Kline would (unless you think the median national voter is more reactionary than the median voter in Kansas Republican primaries) give some pause to peop
Do-do-do-dee-do, it’s nice living here in the Capital of Baseball where you can check some scores and news before bed without being subjected to an ESPN-style 24-hour Brett Favre wankfest and
In the course of refusing to exclude evidence obtained through an illegal no-knock search in Hudson v. Michigan, Justice Scalia applied that the rule was obsolete: Another development over the past half-century that deters civil-rights violations is the increasing professionalism of police forces, including a new emphasis on internal police discipline. The logic of this […]
Picasso’s painting memorializes the bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War that killed several hundred civilians. At the time the incident shocked the world. Eight years later, 70
Seven years in, the conviction of bin Laden’s chauffeur/mechanic is apparently supposed to rank as one of the Bush administration’s great victories. Assuming that victory includes developi
Three months ago, Robert Kaplan and (to a lesser extent) George Packer decided to try to use Burmese cyclone victims as props in Humanitarian Intervention III: Objective Burma! The argument was that SLORC, the junta that controls Burma, was so inept and mendacious that a military assault to save disaster victims was both justified and […]
Better luck at the track: For the second time in two years, voters in Kansas have handed a stinging defeat to Phil Kline, an anti-abortion crusader whose reputation was made attempting to prosecute th
Megan Carpentier: When he failed to wow them with his “drill here and drill now” energy plan, or his tax plan or his plan to be out of Iraq for sure by 2013, he tried a different strategy.