Gitlin forwards me the following on the SSBN crash: To the tactical oceanographer, the Atlantic may be less large than it at first appears. It seems the British sub was heading out to sea, while the French vessel was returning from patrol. Both captains, with similar boats on similar missions likely took the same factors […]
Month: February 2009
Syndicated columnist William F. George hops on the denialist bandwagon. And, yes, it is Sarah Palin’s party now.
This set of presidential rankings, as Steve Benen points out, is not all that useful except as a conversation-starter. Bearing that in mind, I’ll simply note the absurdity of keeping William Hen
For some reason, the Atlantic continues to attract love letters to aircraft. I had hoped that Robert Kaplan’s ode to the B-2 Spirit would be sufficient embarrassment to the magazine to make the editors think twice about a second paean to an airborne weapons system. Unfortunately, the generally-more-reliable Mark Bowden falls manages very nearly the […]
With the discussion here and elsewhere in the blogosphere about the filibuster, I thought it was worth trying to get to the core of the issues. It is true, as djw and I have argued in detail, that the
With the discussion here and elsewhere in the blogosphere about the filibuster, I thought it was worth trying to get to the core of the issues. It is true, as djw and I have argued in detail, that the
As Ezra points out, as did a certain visiting dignitary yesterday, it must be said (painfully in my case) that the initial returns on Obama going with the “inside the tent pissing out” strategy with Lieberman have been positive. During the stimulus debate, at least, the urine did not end up primarily on the feet […]
Whoa.
On the one hand, I fully expected to love Synecdoche, New York. Dargis’s rave (though an outlier) seemed persuasive enough, I liked the premise since I first heard about, liked many of Kaufman&#
The more that’s known about Yoo, Bybee and the Bush administration’s arbitrary torture regime, the better.
… what were thoughts on the mythos exposition last night on BSG? My first thoughts: 1. It made more sense than I expected.2. It left some productive directions to take characters in, especially
Read Erik’s contribution first; for some reason he seems to think that Calvin Coolidge was a boring guy. He also talks a bit about US policy towards Latin America and the infant Soviet Union. I