The hospital we’re staying at is right next to a Planned Parenthood Clinic. Every day, we drive past the assortment of freaks holding up pictures of dead fetuses, and every day I flip them off. I do sometimes wonder if the protesters understand that I’m flipping them off, rather than the clinic, but it’s the […]
Month: July 2009
It’s certainly possible that Neanderthal X died in a violent confrontation with modern humans. However, I think that there’s always a danger in reading our own social understandings into a
Via Ezra, this is an interesting post from Gordon Adams: For a major program to emerge, thrive, and survive, it takes basically three players: the service that wants and will advocate for the program,
Welcome Sarah Palin Farley and Michelle Bachmann Farley Diplomacy Patterson Farley and International Commerce Farley Proctor Gamble Farley and Skyline Chili Farley Elisha Fiona Farley and Miriam Belanna Farley to the world. Mother and daughters are doing well. Girls, if this post is still up fifty years from now, I want you to know that […]
On the erosion of the racial gap in turnout. I’ve wanted to say something about this since yesterday. Unfortunately, I haven’t had a lot of time to give it a proper analysis (nor do I no
For egregious data dredging in the service of intellectual dishonesty it would be hard to top this: : “If you’re 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If youR
Kessler, via Drezner: The war of words between North Korea and the United States escalated Thursday, with North Korea’s Foreign Ministry lashing out at Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in unusually personal terms for “vulgar remarks” that it said demonstrated “she is by no means intelligent.” The Foreign Ministry statement attacking Clinton also amply […]
Al Mauroni argues that we’re bringing third-generation thinking to a fourth generation fight: Military analysts and politicians continue to view NBC weapons and CBRN hazards in terms of third-ge
Here’s something that I don’t understand: The United States currently maintains 4 major proxies in the Middle East. Between Israel, Iraq, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia we’ve managed to cov
The F-22 has a faint heartbeat in the House of Representatives, but appears to be slipping away: The committee voted July 22 to spend $369 million to buy another dozen F-22s, but Rep. David Obey, the committee chairman, said that has to change. In light of the Senate vote and a threat from the White […]
Jeffrey Lewis gets shrill.
The gap of 10 days between the second and third tests of the 2009 Ashes series represents the longest such fallow period of the series. This is a good opportunity to take a look at where the series