Parag Khanna has an interesting essay in the Financial Times. You need a subscription to read it the whole thing, but a few important excerpts are below: Imagine a world with a strong China reshaping Asia; India confidently extending its reach from Africa to Indonesia;...
Month: December 2010
"Home Run" might be a little premature, but at the least a stand-up triple of an appointment: Justice Sotomayor has completely dispelled the fear on the left that her background.
I'm recently "returned" to Oregon from a week + in Kitsapland, hanging out for five days with my partner's family, followed by an impromptu three-night stand with my fleet of.
For some reason this reminds me of John McKay's comment immediately after he had coached Tampa Bay to one in a string of 26 straight losses, and he was asked what he thought of his team's execution. He replied he thought it was a good...
A few links of note: China's DF-21 anti-ship-ballistic missiles are reportedly approaching operational capability. Oh, and China has built a prototype for a new stealth fighter-bomber, the J-20. My Defense.
My yays: Bert Blyleven Bert Blyleven Bert Blyleven* Robbie Alomar Jeff Bagwell Barry Larkin Edgar Martinez Mark McGwire Tim Raines Larry Walker *Anyone who argues in comments against Bert Blyleven,.
On the road home from South Carolina I posted notice of Laura Sjoberg's critique of militarized masculinity in her analysis of DADT-repeal discourse. Now that I'm settled in, I've realized it's the comments thread on that post where the real action is and I feel...
Since SEK brought it up... Since what I have to say is predominantly negative, I should say that Freedom is not without its pleasures and accomplishments. Ruth Franklin's bottom line,.
Glenn Greenwald's observations about how, in the context of the Wikileaks story, the usual symbiotic relationship between our government and Big Media is moving toward something like organic union reminded.
I read Jonathan Franzen's Freedom because everybody else did and now distinctly wish I hadn't. It's a long book that's as artfully structured as it is poorly executed, which is the polite way of saying that everyone and everything in it sounded exactly the same—except for...
I'm glad Obama did this. I think that the following points should be obvious, although there seems to be substantial disagreement about them: Convicted persons who have paid their debt.
Been off grid for holidays (arguing with brothers among other things about whether eight-year-old boys should be allowed to have hurt feelings when their sisters talk smack to them or.