Jesse Taylor points out: Missile defense is not a bad idea…in the abstract. Defending oneself from missiles, after all, was the basis of a seminal videogame in the 1980s, which made the point that stopping missiles from hitting us was not only useful for protecting your cities and missile bases, but was also entertaining and […]
Via Kevin Drum, Robert Kagan on Russia: A great deal is riding on whether President Bush can muster the will to denounce the man he has regarded as an ally in the war on terrorism. Some will argue,
Since this is a little long to be included in comments, a couple of quick points about the possibility of a pro-life feminism. The first thing to say is that the question is unanswerable; in some sen
Sam Rosenfeld at Tapped catches this in the Washington Post: The Pentagon’s last hope of flight-testing critical new elements of an antimissile system, before activating the system this autumn, appeared to vanish yesterday with the disclosure that the next flight test has been postponed until late this year, well past the November election. The Air Force general […]
Everybody say hi to frequent commenter Erik’s new blog, Alterdestiny. Make sure to ask him what the hell the title means, and why an old school lefty like him is using such a New-Agey name.
I’ve been meaning to pull together a post responding to various arguments made by Hugo Schwyzer on the possibility of a left, feminist pro-life political alignment (See here, here, here). Amp
What to think about Chechnya and Beslan? Having a blog gives me the opportunity to ruminate at length. . . The Chechen situation provokes some difficult questions about terrorism. Various Russian states have “terrorized” Chechnya since the 19th century. In World War II, Stalin deported more or less the entire population of Chechnya to Siberia. […]
In a recent article in which self-parody and self-congratulation fought each other to a draw, Prof. Reynolds made the following statement: The press has been in the tank for Kerry to a degree that is
This story from the Washington Post is making the rounds this morning, inspiring commentary from Sully, Atrios, Josh Marshall, Patridiot Watch, and Henry at Crooked Timber. The outgoing U.S. Mari
Great, non-baseball thread at USS Mariner. Make sure to read the comments as well, in particular for a discussion of how an eighty foot tall robot can transform himself into a handgun. Here is how the thread begins: I always thought Megatron and Shockwave were ridiculously bad-ass compared to the Autobots, though clearly the size issue […]
So long to a few of the remaining vestiges of democracy in Russia: He said he would propose legislation abolishing the election of local governors by popular vote. Instead, they would be nominated by
Mark Kleiman is the first person I’ve seen to make this rather crucial point: Wouldn’t it be astonishing if a major news organization turned out to have been as foolishly credulous about d