Via Christopher Shea comes news that will surprise no one I've talked to since returning to the States:Irish drinkers lead the EU in the proportion of those drinking that have 3-4 drinks (35%) or 5-6 drinks (19%). As 5 or more drinks as the threshold for...
As Rob can attest, the poor guy has really bad luck with that stuff. Now he has to deal with this.
Closer to an official statement on the sinking of Cheonan: A North Korean torpedo attack was the most likely cause for the sinking of a South Korean warship last month,.
I'd have to agree that "how dare you respond to our laws that give the police virtually unlimited discretion to detain people for the crime of not having a passport handy by not coming to our economically suffering police state" isn't much of an argument. As...
That's what economist Benjamin Powell is doing at the Freeman, where he notes that Western observers who refer to Somalia's "failed state" status generally overlook the importance of Xeer, the.
On Friday I appeared briefly on the Alyona Show to discuss Prompt Global Strike:
Lithwick has a good article about the case of Charles Dean Hood, who was given a death sentence despite the fact that his prosecutor and judge were literally in bed together. The Supreme Court has refused to hear his appeal, and while his death sentence has...
The first two Philip Roth books I read were Portnoy's Complaint and Sabbath's Theater. These make for a rather abrupt introduction, but Roth quickly became my favorite from the post-war.
It's kind of hard to tell, but I think that Reliapundit is arguing that an alien invasion will (massacres and general butchery aside) usher in a New Golden Age for.
I finally saw The Men Who Stare at Goats this weekend. A significant number of reviews from last year when it came out reference the epigram to the film, "More of this stuff is true than you think." However in my mind, the most important quote...
See Geoff Forden on the typical damage profile of a modern torpedo, and how that relates to Cheonan.
Grover floats an idea: Now assuming that the incident was the product of centralized decision making rather than an unintended one ordered lower down the food chain (something I discussed.