For my part, the BSG season premier didn't disappoint. Not every series is gutsy enough to begin its season with... a Dean Stockwell sex scene. Read Scott McLemee at Crooked Timber, who asks:If the humans were originally us and the Cylons were Al Qaeda, how...
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Best. Pitcher. Evah. So I specifically arrange to have an engagement to see a movie and get dinner to thwart whatever perverse impulse I might have to watch the Tigers-Yankees.
Shorter Bobo and Ann Althouse: "Millions of people enjoyed Silence of the Lambs, and yet if a Republican were caught engaging in murder and cannibalism, you can only imagine how.
This is cool. Via Duss.
Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson...my veterinarian told me that Nelson was born without a tail; I had believed that he'd lost it at some point. So I started looking up info.
As I anticipated, this Yankees/Tigers series will be an incredible nail-biter; I can't believe anybody wrote the Tigers off. And there's nobody I'd rather have close out a huge road.
Let's play "spot the glaring logical flaws, one revealed by reprehensible behavior." It's an easy one! Lesse, according to Glenn Reynolds: Pointing out that a gay person is gay is clear evidence of homophobia, and is "McCarthyism" if the person in question isn't out. Roger...
John Cole offers an amusing round-up of the dead-enders trying to defend the GOP in the wake of the Foley scandal. (See also Dave.) Lots of classics, but I think.
Shorter Ann Althouse: Michael Moore Bill Clinton Warren Beatty is fat. And he probably wears shorts in the summer too, he's half a man!
Is the Russian Navy finally beginning to come out of its fifteen year hibernation? Admiral Kuznetsov, the Russian Navy's sole aircraft carrier, will apparently rejoin the fleet by the end of the year. Admiral Nahkimov, a Kirov class nuclear battlecruiser, is scheduled to return to...
An excellent post at Broadsheet about how financial obstacles prevent women from obtaining first trimester abortions, which should again remind us that the centrist abortion position--which simultaneously argues that we.
According to first-rate constitutional scholar Mark Levin, Bill Clinton is so powerful he can magically transform a 22-year-old White House employee into a "19-year-old intern." The Clenis is omnipotent.(Via Somerby.)