Nuggets of childish, morbidly curious insight about the world, that is. Because at least in my household, the kids are much more interesting than the pets. First weekly entry below - this is from the third-grader. (more…)
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When you're on Iran's death-row, which has seemingly been convinced to upgrade their standards of decency to the level exercised by my home state of Washington, at least in terms.
Yesterday was the anniversary of their signing, and Shadow Government's John John B. Bellinger III has a piece worth reading this week: Today, 12 August, is the 61st anniversary of.
OK, I know some of you are sick to death wearying of the Wikileaks story. A few commenters have argued that I've already spent a disproportionate amount of time on it. (What can I say? I follow stories more closely when they happen to dovetail...
Dear Ross Douthat: Please, for the love of Christ, desist from using the word "thick." cheers, Everybody in the World
...you can now purchase a 100-proof version of your favorite overblown conservative rhetoric. (After all, he is clearly, and spectacularly, drunk on it.)
I'm out of town for a funeral and don't time to fully get into this, but I couple of quick points to add to SEK's demolition of Jonah below: Note how tendentious Goldberg's examples are. He happens to choose a from the tiny handful of...
It hardly bears mentioning that The Huffington Post remains one of the least reliable sources of decent, scientifically-literate reporting on health and medicine, but this piece by natural diet guru.
Jonah Goldberg proves, as if we needed reminding, that the people "who talk about reverence for the Constitution ... consistent with the 'genius of our constitutional design'" are the ones.
In an earlier post on the lessons of the Afghan War Diaries, I pointed out an unfortunate legal fact: that civilian harms aren't necessarily evidence of war crimes. But I also argued, as I long have, that such "unintentional" civilian casualties are unacceptably high. Today,...
Greg Gutfeld circa 2003: In 2003 [while serving as the Editor in Chief of Stuff], Gutfeld hired several dwarves to attend a magazine conference, on the topic of “buzz,” in.
Dan Rostenkowski, 1928-2010. The quintessential Chicago pol.