Voting is open at The Poor Man Institute for the 2006 Kippie Awards for Excellence in Wingnuttery. Tough competition this year so far -- Shelby Steele is narrowly leading Hugh Hewitt for "Wank of the Year," while Richard Cohen (with two entries in "The Purple...
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My daughter was born last April 26, a day that happens to be observed in Forida and Georgia as Confederate Memorial Day. As best we can tell, that particular date.
Submitted without comment, the opening grafs of a NYT "Homes" section article:FOR some people, the most elusive aspect of owning a vacation home that sits beyond big-city borders isn’t finding.
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck
Shorter Glenn Reynolds and Don Surber: "Only Luddites believe that drug companies should disclose payoffs to doctors and advertising; everyone knows that if drug companies didn't make unlimited profits from.
China has destroyed a satellite, joining Russia and the United States as the only countries capable of both putting objects in space and blowing them up. Some angles:Deterrence: First and.
I'm still behind, so it will be a little bit before I can get an arbitrarily numbered film list out (come to think of it, I haven't even done 2005 yet--maybe this weekend.) So, instead some movies that (while not without their virtues) will not...
OK, so the New York Times publishes a monumentally idiotic (and egregiously sexist) article about the fashion choices of female political leaders. No allegedly seriously blogger (with a tendency to.
In TAPPED comments, Bob Somerby directs is to this 2002 op-ed from Virignia's newly elected Senator:Other than the flippant criticisms of our "failure" to take Baghdad during the Persian Gulf.
I note here that Al Gore's pre-war remarks hold up rather better than the predictions of the war's cheerleaders, despite attempts to claim that everyone was equally wrong. Atrios does us the favor of collecting some of the contemporaneous reaction to Gore's speech(including Neal Pollock's...
Ezra has some interesting observations on inadvertent learning and the blogosphere. By getting our news predominantly from blogs and online sources, he suggests, we run the risk of missing out.
Which entity poses a greater threat to civil liberties?(a) an administration that has detained foreign "terrorists" without trial for more than five years; mustered law enforcement agencies to surveil the.