Bob Novak on the Capital Gang, discussing the Rumsfeld dust-up: Look, soldiers always complain. That's just what they do--it's a way of life for them.
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Furthering my time-wasting in this here coffee shop, your easily distracted blogger has been leafing through a several-month old paper copy of The Chronicle of Higher Education left lying around. The.
One downside to my decision to replace my Clinton-era, Windows 98, 1/3 chance of crashing when opening a PDF laptop with a spiffy 2004 model is that I can now.
When I blasted the Gregoire campaign a few weeks ago for their incompetence, I was primarily thinking of the media and message elements of her campaign. In this week's Stranger, Sandeep Kaushik gives an even more damning account of her incompetence. In concentrating her efforts on...
Bob Somerby provides data for one of my hobbyhorses, the egregious underrating of the PAC-10 in college football. Admittedly, I would prefer that he made the point of comparison the.
In the wake of a reference ruling by the Canadian Supreme Court, Parliament will almost certainly pass federal legislation allowing same-sex marriage. Evidently, the news that Canada has far more rational.
A few random thoughts continuing what Scott said below. First, everyone should read this Neiwart post at Ornicus. I have little to add to it. Yes, some people used faulty and dangerous reasoning to correctly oppose the Iraq war. But significant segments of Democratic party leadership...
Atrios gets right to the heart of the "people with no power are ruining Democratic foreign policy" thesis: Let me add just one thing: Beinart's obsession is that it's the.
A remarkable story, as the Supreme Court confronts egregious lawlessness in the Fifth Cicuit, itself intended to cover up egregious lawlessness in Texas's administration of the death penalty: The two.
Seattle is one of three cities booked so far on the Slint reunion tour. I'm a bit of a sucker for reunion tours, especially for those bands that put out great stuff in the early 90's and then broke up. Even more especially those frequently credited...
Everyone's linking to this new blog started by Velleman, whose work I don't personally know, but who I know is a big name in philosophy. But the rest of the roster.
immediately below. The natural path for this to take is for us to start parsing Atrios' argument narrowly until we discover we all pretty much agree, and I'm not sure.