Speaking of amusing front matter, I enjoyed the following, the first paragraph of the preface of a major American political theorist's first book: This book began as a doctoral dissertation, which is warning enough for the experienced. To the usual faults of dissertations I have...
General
I dug into this exchange between Max Boot and Geoffrey Wheatcroft with some mild enthusiasm. Boot, while often wrong, at least tends to be interesting and is well-informed about military.
Read Brad Plumer's excellent article on the Houston janitorial strike, and what it may portend for union organizing in the South. Plumer has this interesting paragraph, which got me thinking:So.
Friday Cat Blogging... Bali
Travel day today, so very light blogging. In the meantime, enjoy Roy nominating Dr. Mrs. Ole Perfesser for a Robert Bork "It's the Sociological Significance" award, and 3 Bulls having.
Today is a day of great shame. On the upside, Duck basketball has started off very well. I'm sure that they'll also fail in pathetic fashion.
And I thought Alaska was a freakshow. Turns out my last two states of residence -- Virginia and Minnesota -- are linked together by the incoherent yodeling of Virgil Goode, whose constituents are really concerned about the election of Keith Ellison to Congress. If Virgil...
GFR has a clever post about George Bush's one contribution to human discouse, the "fantasy tense." I think that Ken Pollack should be speaking in this tense full-time....see also Fred.
Hugh Hewitt files a last-minute entry in the Golden Winger nominations, Soggy Biscuit division:And that’s why every president, whether you like him or not, deserves a Doris Kearns Goodwin, who.
Mr. Trend has a nifty little post about Brazil's World War II Memorial. Brazilian Rangers served in Italy in World War II, and Brazil's navy conducted anti-submarine patrols in both wars. Mr. Trend doesn't mention, though, that many of the officers who served with Brazil's...
Colonel Stanley Kurtz grants us a rare glimpse into the dark recesses of the wingnut mind. Confronting the possibility that the "MSM" may have been more or less accurate in.
Rich Lowry:In Iraq, the media’s biases happen to fit the circumstances. Being primed to consider any military conflict a quagmire and another Vietnam is a drawback when covering a successful.