The good news is that someone at NRO has overcome political objections in order to praise a movie. The bad news:So why exactly is crude Deuce irresistible? If you can get beyond the aforementioned, European Gigolo might be the most unlikely laugh-out-loud-funny date movie. You'll...
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I tend, as longtime readers know, to find broad claims about "gentrification" to encompass too many distinct concepts to be useful. I think Phoebe Maltz's term "blandification" could be potentially.
Lance has a good post on the Byrnes firing, and floats a few theories:We know that in most cases like this when somebody’s fired for what looks like no good.
Why does the Washington Post hate America?The Bush administration is significantly lowering expectations of what can be achieved in Iraq, recognizing that the United States will have to settle for far less progress than originally envisioned during the transition due to end in four months,...
It's obvious, but it nonetheless bears repeating:In constant dollars (i.e., adjusted for inflation), current gas prices do not yet approach the peak price attained around 1980. As I tell my.
This post by Eugene Volokh, following up his approving citation of the odious James Taranto making silly claims about "[t]hose Westerners who side with the "Iraqi resistance" against America," digs.
I agree with Julia and Lindsay; the Rude Pundit's debut at the Fringe Festival easily lived up to expectations. Those who can't make the show can enjoy some Rude Pundit classics, such as his essays about Bill O'Reilly, Bernard Kerik and (my personal favorite) Republican...
There is no God.
Whether you find OxBlog worthwhile or not, I guess, depends largely on whether you find David Adesnik's apparently sincere belief that the contemporary Republican Party is controlled by principled Burkeans.
Megan McArdle claims, based entirely on personal anecdotes: "[I]nstilling fear for a woman's physical safety--the definition of terrorism--did not seem to me to be one of [Operation Rescue's] goals." Whatever McArdle personally experienced, however, there was a significant threat of violence against abortion clinics:"Violence was...
Friday Cat Blogging. . . KashmirNote: Stromboli, not actually being my cat, has not accompanied me to Lexington. I have a backlog of Stromboli photos, as well as pictures of.
Ugh. Not the grossest thing I've seen watching a ballgame; the list has to start with Moises Alou ripping up his ankle at Busch Stadium. But this was scary.The other.