A couple months ago, your humble servant was attacked for noting that Nat Hentoff's claim that "[u]nlike people in a persistent vegetative state, Terri Schiavo is indeed responsive beyond mere reflexes" represented a "further descent into wingnuttery." Anyway, I reiterate my remarks. Definitions of wingnuttery...
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An important and correct decision by the Supreme Court on Monday, Miller-El v. Dretke. The case involved a death penalty trial in which 1)the prosecution "shuffled" the jury during voir.
Budding Sinologist has some interesting thoughts on killing aircraft carriers. My thoughts are here.Beginning next Monday, I plan to launch a six part series on the future of US-China relations..
More than you ever wanted to know about the current state of German politics.Seriously.
You'll be happy to know that the fine folks at William Morrow has commissioned the not-at-all-discredited detective Mark Furhman to solve all our many unanswered questions about the mysterious death.
Nice post from Daniel at Duck of Minerva on guns and genocide. Call me a Hobbesian, but I find state power less frightening than the lack of a state monopoly.
It is well beyond time to suggest that Hitch has lost any credibility. Nonetheless. . .And now look. I think it is fairly safe to say that not one detainee in Guantanamo is there because of an expression of opinion. (And those whose "opinion" is...
I didn't really have anything to say about the pie-fight at Kos, although there's no question that his response was a good example of his general antipathy toward feminist politics..
Julia, iocaste, and Kevin Drum on the further decline of Michael Kinsley.
Curious how the wingnuts will react to this.Six bombs have exploded in Iran, killing at least 10 people, days before the presidential election. Four blasts targeted public buildings in the south-western city of Ahwaz, killing at least eight people and wounding more than 70 others....
Matt reminds us of something we should always keep in mind:What the textbooks deal with is the question of lowering barriers to the importation of goods. What happens when this.
This doesn't even qualify as Alanis Morrisette irony:I was watching a little bit of the College World Series game between Tennessee and Georgia Tech. The leadoff hitter for Tennessee is.