Friday Cat Blogging. . . Stromboli
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Bill at By Dawn's Early Light has put together a nice post that considers China's expanding power and constructs what might be a reasonable approach to containing that power, especially.
Bobo does us a favor by summarizing virtually every aspect of the mythological received wisdom about Roe v. Wade:Justice Harry Blackmun did more inadvertent damage to our democracy than any.
Be sure to read this article from Tuesday's NYT. It highlights a set of problems associated with naval procurement, although I think it misses one of the biggest ones, which is naval doctrine.It has been a very long time since any kind of meaningful competition...
It shows how alienated I am from Law & Order that when I flipped over tonight that I had no idea that Michael Imperioli was now on the show. So.
I was thinking yesterday about Oklahoma City, and about how things might have been different if a left wing radical had blown up the Federal Building instead of a right.
World O' Crap notes that my alma mater his ignited intense fantasies in the mind of third-tier wingnut Dennis Prager. Apparently, a student read Butler and Foucault and watched a show starring a McGill alumnus more talented than Bill Shatner, and found out that everybody...
Jonah Goldberg joins the excitement for Pope Reactionary The Umpteenth over at the Kiddy Korner: In all the talk about Dean V. Ratzinger, I'm surprised I'm the first to point.
For the most part, David Frum's op-ed about the Liberal meltdown in Canada is marginally less hackish than one might expect, and even contains one piece of useful information for.
Yesterday I read, for the first time, an issue of New York's latest sinkhole for the dollars of reactionary philanthropists, the New York Sun. They hit my price: they were handing them out free in the subway. (And I emphasize the "handing out"; if they...
Lawyers, Guns and Money extends its heartfelt congratulations to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, sausage eating bastard and now Pope Benedict XVI. He's 78, so we'll probably have to go through all.
I don't pick up most trends before they become cool. In fact, I don't pick up many trends that are cool right now. My coolness meter has about a two.