General
When you blog, you can never predict your reactions; sometimes posts you think will be provocative generate consensus, and post that express the most self-evident banalities generate controversy. The fact.
Make sure to read Lance's proper and appropriate excoriation of Elspeth Reeve's defense of Ann Coulter. I really wonder if there's something in the water at the New Republic that.
I would like to think that George Allen's recent bout of racist taunting (although, in fairness, who could have predicted that someone who worshipped the Confederate flag while growing up.
Shorter Ace of Spades: The only way to preserve liberal democracy is through state-sponsored racism and collective guilt. (Via alicublog.)
Good WaPo article on Hezbollah guerilla capabilities. MacGyver has also been on the case, asking the right questions about Hezbollah's competence. There are three questions that I find of particular.
Heh. Maybe one of the reasons that the administration doesn't like going to the UN is that they regularly get schooled by the French...First, during the first UN Resolution that.
With respect to nutritionally unsound university dining, I note that my dorm cafeteria--in which everyone had to choose between two mass-cooked meals at a central dining hall rather than choosing.
I was happy to see Darcy's tribute to Randy Newman. I can't agree, however, that Randy Newman (Creates Something New Under the Sun) is a "disaster." Sure, its notably inferior.