Bernard Finel suggests that my rant last week about progressive thought on defense slighted existing progressive defense analysts. I partially agree, but only partially. The essay that I wrote was intended as an exhortation for progressives to give more thought to defense policy, rather than a review essay about progressive defense policy thought. Accordingly, the […]
Month: January 2011
John Sides at the Monkey Cage weighs in with some social science on the relationship between militant metaphors in political speech and individuals’ willingness to engage in actual political vio
Jack Shafer’s column about speech in the wake of the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords conflates several different claims into a broad argument about free speech. Some of these c
Tammy Bruce and Sarah Palin’s flack. Maybe Althouse is doing some writing for Palin on the side or something. …TBogg: “Johnny Cash once surveyed a man in Reno just to watch him die.”
Matterhorn is the Das Boot of the Vietnam-era Marine infantry company. Two tips when reading Matterhorn: Do NOT get attached to any of the characters, and have NO hope that things are going to get b
Sweet. 05-06 aside, was the Lynch stiff-arm — perhaps I should say flea-swat — of Porter the greatest moment in Seahawk history? I’d have to think so.
Gabrielle Giffords. Update: Sarah Palin and gun fetishism. We can only imagine what would happen if the shooter turned out to be a young Muslim. Since he appears to be a white guy it’ll be probably be considered in bad taste to use the t word.
New Orleans (-10.5) over Seattle: I know the Saints are very banged up, but…alas, my Norris West-division champion Hawks have only a couple teams from the era in which the NHL allowed 16 put of
Don’t Fuck with the Ducks!
Is it too late for the Stones to retroactively re-hire Mick Taylor in 1975?
Pretty much everything Caple says here is right, but this is especially important: I would agree more with your pompous Hall of Fame voting stance if it weren’t so hypocritical, inconsistent and
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