I board the first of two flights on a PDX-AMS-BRS itinerary in 90 60 minutes (which means I am safely ensconced in an airport bar). I am missing election day, which suits me fine, because in this election the real drama should be what follows...
Month: May 2010
I'm not sure which of the many obviously idiotic arguments in the latest demonstration of utter cluelessness by Mark Penn, Union Buster (TM) is the very dumbest. But I think.
This rather odd recent article about the novelist Irène Némirovsky is a good example of a journalistic technique I can't stand: allowing people to respond to uncited "critics" without linking.
Although Brian Leiter beat me to it, this David Bernstein post is such a remarkable piece of work that I can't resist piling on. Angry about the possibility that someone might be criticized (with, properly in my view, no other consequences as far as...
Holy Joe Lieberman, America's last honest man and second most important arbiter of National Integritude after Bill Bennett. (See also here and here and here.)
Congratulations to George Herring! Vietnam War historian George C. Herring, Alumni Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Kentucky, is the 2010 recipient of the Medallion for Intellectual Achievement..
I have some thoughts on Gates' Navy speech over at ID.
Dan Yoder is leaving Facebook, and implores us to "join him." He has almost a dozen reasons why. Some of them are even good reasons. He's not alone. And more.
Ernie Harwell, R.I.P.
to use the new nomenclature, offers a real chance for electoral reform in the UK: specifically, ditching the SMD / Plurality system in place that offers the country a government.
This is according to a new policy brief out from the Belfer Center at Harvard, in which Monica Duffy Toft details a study of 137 civil wars fought from 1940-2007..