I corrected an oversight in my film experience this evening by watching Stephen Spielberg's Duel, from 1971. I expected to be pleased (in general I like Spielberg, although I walked out of The Terminal), but I was surprised not by how much I liked the...
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Justin Gardner has actually been going some good work in the wake of Katrina, but then he once again proves the oddity of self-defined "centrism" by endorsing the wingnuttiest argument.
Is Dale "sure John Olerud can go first to home on a line-drive single to shallow right!" Sveum worse as a player or as a third-base coach?
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)--President George W. Bush announced that the vacancy at the head of FEMA created when Michael Brown was nominated as the next Ambassador to the Ivory Coast would be filled by Andrew Fastow, former Chief Financial Officer of Enron, Corp. “As I said...
Friday Cat Blogging. . . CaramelFor those interested in the fate of Stromboli, I have received this:After that, it was time to load the cat for transport. I wasn't really.
Differently phrased Glenn Reynolds: The failures of Homeland Security (although not the President who oversees the office!) after Katrina make a paranoid crank's lunatic ravings about scary dark-skinned musicians all.
Nice post by Matt Yglesias:Late 1990s America was aesthetically unsatisfying to a lot of intellectual types, including intellectual types who write about politics. They yearned for a more heroic age, found the disaster of 9/11 exhilarating, and hoped that the rise of al-Qaeda would provide...
Visited the Woodford Reserve distillery yesterday, and bought a liter of their delightful product. Bourbon is glorious, and great bourbon inspires contemplation of divinity.Lexington does have its charms. The booze.
I think that a couple of comments in this thread deserve greater attention. In presenting a damning set of evidence regarding comparative social mobility in Europe and the United States,.
An actual recruiting ad. Watch. Via Mike at Fish for Breakfast.
Bob Somerby saw someone say this on This Weak: “I was one of the people who was very angry watching from the safety of my living room and with the.
Werther does the necessary work of demolishing Victor Davis Hanson. Charles Murray isn't the only transparent hack on the right. Via Wolcott.Mr. Hanson, Cal State Fresno's contribution to human letters,.