Maybe not, but it captures my current mood. I've been thinking of writing a political novel. It will be a bad novel because there won't be any nuance: the villains won't just espouse an ideology I disagree with - they'll be hypocrites, cranks and scoundrels. In...
Author: Robert Farley
Next class doesn't start for two hours, and still not sick enough to cancel, so. . . It's a bit of an understatement to say that offseason 2004-5 has been.
Freedom of enterprise, anyway, especially when your enterprise is heroin. Seen from the air, the Margo desert, which sprawls across the far southwestern corner of Afghanistan toward the borders with Iran.
This is, er, a problem: 200,000 INSURGENTS?: According to Iyad Allawi's intelligence chief, General Mohammed Abdullah Shahwani, the Sunni insurgency consists of 200,000 fighters, of which 40,000 are a hard core. "I think the resistance is bigger than the U.S. military in Iraq," Shahwani told AFP...
As always, Orcinus renders the issues surrounding the Washington election crystal clear.
Very nice portrait of Sam Reed, our Secretary of State and one of a small and declining number of sensible, moderate Republicans in Washington State in today's Seattle Times. Note that.
Fascinating article on the BBC. Franco was neither an idiot nor an ideologue. He had two interests in World War II; staying alive and getting Gibraltar. Openly siding with the Axis might have accomplished the latter while putting the former in peril. However, it looks...
He couldn't make the time himself, so he sends a lame duck and his even lamer brother? WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 - Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, seeking to raise the.
Redbeard on this editorial from David Holcberg, research associate at the Ayn Rand Institute. I was looking for something to buy in a book catalog and asked my dad about The.
Best wishes to all from Lawyers, Guns and Money. Have fun, stay safe. Special shout-out to those stuck in places they'd rather not be. May 2005 be a better year than 2004.
Because of the absurd manner in which studios release films at the end of the year, any "Best of" list collected in late December threatens to exclude several of the.
I understand, given the events in South Asia, that this is a relatively minor tragedy. Nonetheless, I'll miss Jerry Orbach, as much for his long-term presence on Law and Order as.