Is Caligula misunderstood? Scott Mclemee reviews Aloys Winterling's efforts in this regard: But what if all of these claims about Caligula were wrong, or at least overblown? What if he was, in fact, completely sane -- his awful reputation the product of a smear campaign?...
Month: October 2011
Mariah Blake's article about Tom Petters is fascinating stuff. Petters used a Ponzi scheme funded largely by hedge funds, investors known to Petters and his associates through Christian groups, and.
Speaking of things that rarely end well... ...as a couple commenters have pointed out, I agree that there's one flaw in John's generally astute analysis. Looking only at final vote.
Interesting pair of articles on Latin American military institutions. First Guatemala: They burned villages, killed children and, just a winding road away from here in 1982, the Guatemalan military also massacred hundreds of Mayan peasants, after torturing old men and raping young women. But now,...
The death of Howard Wolpe, the congressman from Michigan who sponsored bills in the 80s to impose sanctions on the apartheid regime in South Africa should remind us that Ronald.
Someone is trying to get in good with our robot overloads by developing robot cats they can pet.
This is, obviously, appalling. See Patrick Nielson Hayden and Ta-Nehisi Coates. It's possible, of course, that some prosecutions of rank-and-file cops for ticket-fixing can be plausibly described as less than ideal prosecutorial practice; if they're under orders to do it, everyone does it, and they...
When Lieberman, Lindsay, and St. McCain get together and develop detainee policy, I want to run screaming in the other direction. The ultimate double breasted trench coat and ladies winter.
Congrats to the Cardinals -- just amazing considering where they were in August. It's too bad that there wasn't a follow-up to the a classic Game 6 like 1975, but.
I don't see the Rangers recovering from last night, but then lots of unlikely things have happened in this Series. Consider this an open thread for game seven of the World Series. ...[SL]: I'd like to think that this would discredit the IW-the-bases-loaded play, but...
Having Roland Emmerich pander to Shakespeare birthers may be too cruel to the birthers. Maybe maybe we can get Tom Shadyac to do an Orly Taitz hagiography... When a young.
Fail: Centuries of British royal discrimination came to an end Friday after Commonwealth leaders agreed to drop rules that give sons precedence as heir to the throne and bar anyone in line.