Baseball Challenge standings, week 19:1 New Mexico Alterdestiny, E. Loomis 1855 2 Axis of Evel Knievel, d. noon 1750 3 Shangri-La Coelacanths, J. Daw 1689 4 Oregon Bearded Duck, R. Farley 1509 5 Discpline And Punish, S. Lemieux 1460 6 Chan Ho Ballpark, P. McLeod...
Author: Robert Farley
I like Juan Cole's Iraq withdrawal proposal, both for the seriousness with which is takes the potential consequences of a full withdrawal and for its detail. I also quite agree.
New York Times headline: G.I. Death Toll in Afghanistan Worst Since '01That would seem to imply that there were more deaths in 2001 than there have been this year. Otherwise,.
I didn't know this:Detractors dismiss Discovery as a fundamentalist front and intelligent design as a clever rhetorical detour around the 1987 Supreme Court ruling banning creationism from curriculums. But the institute's approach is more nuanced, scholarly and politically adept than its Bible-based predecessors in the...
This strikes me as nonsense:The USS Iowa joined in battles from World War II to Korea to the Persian Gulf. It carried President Franklin Roosevelt home from the Teheran conference.
Responding to this post, Andrew Cox of the Roosevelt Institution points me to this Roosevelt Review article on gasoline taxes and their effects on conservation and revenue. A plausible case.
Naming a battleship is more complicated that it might seem. A dreadnought battleship was more than just a weapon; it represented national power in its purest and most visible form. Names, therefore, carried with them political implications. The various navies of the world used different...
I know, it's cliche. Nevertheless. . .Our foursome started at a tee on high ground, looking down a tree-lined swath of grass at the basket nearly 400 feet away. After.
Moving the goalposts is one thing. Playing a different game after halftime is another. Then there's John Gibson, for whom no sports analogy is appropriate. At the risk of opening.
Ted Barlow's latest post on Iraq is quite good, based as it is around Orin Kerr's "four outcome" model of US behavior in Iraq:1) The U.S. beats back the insurgency and democracy flowers in Iraq (call this the "optimistic stay" scenario), 2) The U.S. digs...
Friday Cat Blogging. . . Skadi
Before this morning, I had never heard of Justin Gardner. Now, he's marginalizing me. Come on, let's debate for real without all of this extra bs. I'm more than willing.