Palestinian and Knesset member Ahmad Tibi takes Republicans to task for using increasing inflamed rhetoric against his people. He takes on Eric Cantor in an interesting way: A man living in a glass home ought not to throw such stones. Cantor’s remarks ignored the fact that Americans engaged in genocidal violence and enslavement when establishing […]
Month: December 2011
It seems the belief that lemmings periodically commit mass suicide as an instinctual response to overpopulation is, in the strict sense, a myth. Lemmings reproduce so quickly that they are prone to ch
To build on Rob’s post below, Quiggin’s argument is extremely lazy. It’s one thing to blame Calhoun for contributing to the Civil War, but Clay and Webster? Rob took care of the Clay
Quiggin: Now that I’ve got started, what is it with the adulation of Clay, Calhoun and Webster? Sure, they were the leading figures in the US in the decades leading up to the Civil War, but isn’t that like saying that Clemenceau, Hindenburg and Chamberlain played comparable roles between 1919 and 1939? Some thoughts, acknowledging at […]
…which is only appropriate, being that that’s how we roll. (And for the record, expect much more from Yours Truly in the New Year, now that I’m not teaching seven thousand sections o
What happens when a QB playing like Colt McCoy and Josh Freeman and Dan Orlovsky (well, not quite as well as the immortal Orlovsky) despite an unrealistically low turnover rate no longer has the unrea
Niall Ferguson on Newt Gingrich: I just read the transcripts of some lectures [Newt Gingrich] gave in the 1990s on “Renewing American Civilization.” They positively fizz with historical insights and brilliant brain waves. They make the case against big government as vividly as anything you’ll ever read. Not really the time, Niall, to make Pankaj […]
Providing an object lesson in why voting for Tea Partiers is a really terrible idea, the city council of Troy, MI decided to out-Christie Christie by turning down federal money for a major renovations
Recently I’ve seen bits and pieces of several episodes of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, and Kourtney and Kim Take New York. (I can only watch about ten minute stretches of these shows before
Always a terrible idea. That, no coincidentally, always hit the women who can least afford it the hardest.
Say hello to PolitiFact! The best part of the Politifact Grand Poohbah’s inadvertently perfect parody of high Broderism is that it contains no defense of his credibility-destroying choice on the
I just want to point out that this is totally not racist: A Fox News guest said that “you might want to say” President Obama looks like “a skinny, ghetto crackhead.” Brent Bozell, of the conse