This post serves as introduction for a new series of posts: Seapower in Culture. Inspired in part by Alyssa Rosenberg's work at the Center for American Progress, but also by a recent David Sirota column attacking my beloved Top Gun and by the imminent arrival of this...
(Since everyone's complaining about Rob's Whitney Houston post, I thought I'd write a proper one.) Whitney Houston burst onto the music scene in 1985 with her self-titled LP which had.
I was doing some rather pointless research on Chester A. Arthur this morning. On his Wikipedia page, I found this: William Arthur's frequent moves would later form the basis for.
This ain't good: A few years ago, hog farmers throughout the Midwest noticed foam building on top of their manure pits. Soon after, barns began exploding, killing thousands of hogs while farmers lost millions of dollars. And you thought Santorum was gross. But seriously, what gives?...
Read about the new crime wave sweeping America's tubas: BELL, Calif. — When thieves broke into the high school music room here this week, they cut through the bolts on.
Shorter Tom Maguire: "If you arbitrarily define government programs that benefit you as not being part of the "safety net," then people who complain about government spending while benefiting from.
In a great catch by a commenter, we find Mr. Glenn Harlan Reynolds endorsing Megan McArdle's "Obama caved to the Bishops!" post based on the original argument made in its title, which turned out to be based on a glaring factual error that renders her argument...
According to twitter, Whitney Houston has died. Also according to AP, which means that it may actually be true. Regarding the media circus which shall ensue within the next hours,.
On this date in 1937, the Flint Sit-Down strike ended after General Motors recognized the United Auto Workers at the bargaining agent for GM employees. This titanic victory legitimized the.
I love the small update added to the extensive analysis (largely consisting of assumptions that feminists are total sellouts, because after all they just loved that recent Plan B decision) based on a transparently erroneous premise. Is Obama wrong because he caved and did a 180?...
How does a guy like Skip Bayless keep working? Actually, I guess I know. He combines pugnacity with a complete lack of shame. I guess that makes good TV for.
If denying people important medical benefits to advance religious values essentially no non-celibate Catholic believes in is the hill Republicans want to die on, they can go right ahead. As.