Yglesias, in discussing the UK's salutary anti-texting-while-driving laws:This trend [in reduced fatalities from accidents] is great, and we should be trying to continue it. One way to do so is to get serious about the dangers involved in cell phone use, including texting, while driving....
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A few years ago, a student of mine worked out the implications of a large scale Chinese SRBM (short range ballistic missile) attack on Taiwan. He argued that the attack.
I understand from all my email that Jack Cashill has posted another Obama/Ayers article. I wonder what non-tendentious conclusions he'll draw this time?Ayers and Obama both describe the crisis in.
Seriously. Now I have to convince my wife to dress up as Hannah Giles.**Not really. I'm dressing as one of these Civil War reenactors. Because, as you know, the best costumes always require tedious explanation.
The premise of Curb Your Enthusiasm, according to James Kaplan's 2004 profile of Larrry David in The New Yorker, is that:David's character is a semi-retired sitcom mogul who ambles through.
Because the world needs more parodies of Victor Davis Hanson:Morituri te salutantThe Victory Column and vero possumus megalomania of 2008 have now led to the deification of Obama as our.
Indeed; and of course it's even worse if establishing a reputation for toughness is simply impossible under any circumstances...
Since people seemed to like the previous pedagogical post, here's a link to what I'm doing in class tomorrow. (Short version: I inform my students they're all murderers, they rebel,.
Especially when they come from different countries?Former Ambassador Martin Indyk revealed an interesting wrinkle to the story of Eastern European missile defense system, which the Obama administration canceled last month,.
So, I read in the Times that Obama's eliminated some bureaucratic hurdles by declaring the swine flu outbreak a national emergency. His decision makes sense to me, because if flu activity currently rivals its annual winter peak, this season's peak could tower over Everest like...
I'm at a loss. (Thankfully, Franken is proving himself to be the kind of Senator who won't let his glorious amendments die mute.)
As we all expected, TBogg has weighed in on Slate's pro-Creed contrarianism....