A hearty welcome back to Alterdestiny, which was felled for three weeks by unknown and frustrating technical problems.
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Nuclear landmines.The seven-ton Blue Peacock consisted of a huge steel casing containing a plutonium core surrounded by high explosives. Its yield was about ten kilotons, and the plan was to.
More a pretext for an open thread, but--team I would pick in bold:Indianapolis (+3 1/2) at Baltimore: Like a Yankees/Dodgers World Series or a Canucks/Maple Leafs Stanley Cup final, a.
The conservative punditocracy jumped the shark long ago, but this week marks a special low, particularly if the latest column by Jonah Goldberg is any indication. Proceeding from the false dichotomy that Americans are divided between those who "want the war to be a success"...
Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson
By grotesque coincidence, two of the central actors in the German Third Reich squirmed loose into the world on 12 January 1893 -- the 400th anniversary of the expulsion of.
Reading about Peter Beinart's attempt to turn pre-war discourse into a giant pissing contest (via Ezra) reminded me about some gossip from Spencer Ackerman. I--like I suspect most people--had always assumed that the New Republic's fatally ridiculous endorsement of Joe Lieberman was a Peretz special...
Josh Trevino claims that "[t]here’s little to be done for the reading comprehension of the online left," and that his bringing up the Boer War was "not to make a.
I doubt that President Bush has any capacity to inspire Americans about the war in Iraq. I vaguely wish that he could. He's made his decision, and I think people.
She's now in Iraq, where the quest for Jamil Hussein has morphed into a search for "pockets of success and signs of hope amid utter despair." Examining her photos and maudlin captions, one would think Malkin is unaware of the fact that the United States...
The latest effusions of Josh "A Wingnut Leaves the Door Ajar As He Swings A Whip From the Boer War" Trevino, already linked below, are a treasure trove of lunacy..
Chilling. And I thought that the biggest problem with Canadian coins was that they were annoyingly similar to ours, yet wouldn't be accepted by vending machines.In a U.S. government warning.