China has destroyed a satellite, joining Russia and the United States as the only countries capable of both putting objects in space and blowing them up. Some angles:Deterrence: First and foremost, this looks like a deterrent move aimed at the United States. The US military...
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I'm still behind, so it will be a little bit before I can get an arbitrarily numbered film list out (come to think of it, I haven't even done 2005.
OK, so the New York Times publishes a monumentally idiotic (and egregiously sexist) article about the fashion choices of female political leaders. No allegedly seriously blogger (with a tendency to.
In TAPPED comments, Bob Somerby directs is to this 2002 op-ed from Virignia's newly elected Senator:Other than the flippant criticisms of our "failure" to take Baghdad during the Persian Gulf War, one sees little discussion of an occupation of Iraq, but it is the key...
I note here that Al Gore's pre-war remarks hold up rather better than the predictions of the war's cheerleaders, despite attempts to claim that everyone was equally wrong. Atrios does.
Ezra has some interesting observations on inadvertent learning and the blogosphere. By getting our news predominantly from blogs and online sources, he suggests, we run the risk of missing out.
Which entity poses a greater threat to civil liberties?(a) an administration that has detained foreign "terrorists" without trial for more than five years; mustered law enforcement agencies to surveil the phone calls and bank records of ordinary citizens without judicial warrant or oversight; narrowed the...
Not so fondly, Loomis remembers 18th-century serial rapist and diarist William Byrd II. But since Byrd clearly didn't rape every woman with whom he came into contact, we should resist.
Bo Yibo, last of the Eight Immortals of the Communist Party, has shuffled off his mortal coil. Bo Yibo is one of the very last of the Long March generation,.
In light of the recent discussion about rape on campus, it's particularly worth reading Courtney Martin's article about this country's dearth of rational sex education and the extent to which this may contribute to the problem. She also adduces some useful data:Every two and half...
From the recent Times article about attempts to turn Atlas Shrugged into a movie:Under Mr. Aglialoro’s sponsorship a succession of writers and producers developed at least four scripts. One writer.
So, I'm sitting in my office minding my own business when I hear dripping. My office is on the fourth floor of Patterson Office Tower, so I don't typically worry.