Reading the comments here, what’s most striking is that Treacher et al. have yet to even attempt an argument explaining, in concrete terms, what more forceful rhetoric or more private dessert eating would accomplish. If I can try to piece together the causal logic: Obama supports Iran opposition, ignores daughters, eats good American salad consisting […]
Month: June 2009
It’s too bad not many Americans care about soccer, because what happened at the Confederations Cup yesterday might well have been the longest shot to ever come through in the sport’s histo
The Supreme Court today, by an 8-1 vote, narowed but did not strike down the “preclearance” provisions of the Voting Rights Act that require certain jurisdictions to get federal approval f
It was a very busy weekend, so when I saw Patterico’s compare and contrast post linked I decided to pretend that it was really a critique of media types giving detailed twitterings of the president’s ice cream buying. But then he showed up in comments to Noon’s post, and…yes, he seems to think that this […]
Who would have thought that one of the most annoying “liberal” Iraq war apologists and torture apologists would turn out to be, when inexplicably given the leadership of a major political
The only decent course of action, of course, would have been for Obama to embark on a Gandhian fast until Twitter made the mullahs cry. One of Gateway Pundit’s commenters asks, “What if Bu
Stephen Walt explains how international relations theory helps to explain the complexities of parenthood. It’s all good, but this seemed especially relevant to my present condition: But if you have a second child the dynamics shift. If one parent is alone at home and both kids are awake, the balance of power isn’t in the […]
Check out this incredible picture at Vintage Seattle: Any guesses as to what year this was? Here’s a hint; it’s definitely not 1908, which is what the caption indicates.
Kick off is at 19:30 (BST), 12:30 (EDT), 09:30 (PDT), 14:30 (EDT), 11:30 (PDT) [see comments for explanation], and a bunch of other times depending on your time zone. The math isn’t that diffi
This is the third installment of a seven part series on the Patterson School’s Summer Reading List. World of Nations, William Keylor The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier Hide and Seek, Charles Duelfer Charles Duelfer worked for UNSCOM, the agency that investigated Iraqi compliance with UN resolutions mandating the elimination of chemical and biological stockpiles during […]
Why is Al Sharpton on my teevee talking to Geraldo Rivera about Iran? This is to say, what has gone wrong with the world such that I have the capacity to watch Al Sharpton talk to Geraldo Rivera about
I wanted to say something about this article in The Times, especially the argument (which the author, Sathnam Sanghera, does an excellent and nuanced job of demolishing) suggesting the English country