Following up an insane week of travel and other commitments I will be attending tonight’s Flames/Rangers tilt with the World’s Most Dangerous Professor and have another silly Times op-ed to get to, so I’ll have to let someone else give the remarkably high words-to-content ratio of Caitlin Flangan’s latest joint a more extensive treatment. I […]
Month: December 2008
Hilzoy doesn’t leave much unsaid here. I’m not sure why the Times chose to give editorial space to Ayers, either; the failure of the “palling-around-with-terrorists” narrative
Does anyone out there interpret Downfall in the same way as Ron Rosenbaum? This has always been my problem with films like the German-made Downfall, which while initially being taken seriously by many
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you 2008 Washington Huskies football: Opponent Margin of Defeat Oregon 34 BYU 1 Oklahoma 41 Stanford 7 Arizona 34 OSU 21 Notre Dame 26 USC 56 ASU 20 UCLA 20 WSU 3 California 41
Reading Herring has made Erik irritable: I think I am just more outraged by this period in American foreign policy than Rob. Rob was able to focus on a lot of important issues that I didn’t much
Douglas Burgess argues that piracy is, in a legal sense, the same as terrorism. Galrahn correctly argues that this formulation produces more questions than it answers. John Burnett argues that the ans
I look forward for weeks to the moment each year when, in National Security Policy, I can hold forth on the stupidity of having both a Department of Homeland Security and and Department of Defense. Brought to you by Joe Lieberman, of course. We should change DoD back to War, or at least “Imperial Affairs” […]
Olmert is right; the settlements are poison to Israel. Noam Arnon, a settler who lives in Hebron, said that with the eviction, Barak was destroying not only his Labor Party, but the State of Israel. O
This op-ed lists William Ayers as the author of “Fugitive Days” and “Race Course”, but not of “Dreams of My Father”; that can’t be right…
I didn’t even have to get shot to get on Bloggingheads…
I can’t recommend highly enough the BBC Radio program “The Human Button,” which explores the human element of the British nuclear deterrent. The program interviews a number of former
Friday Cat Blogging… Starbuck