Pavel Podvig has a fabulous article in the Summer 2008 IS on the development of Soviet nuclear doctrine and force structure in the 1970s:The data presented here demonstrate that concerns about the U.S. “window of vulnerability,” which figured so prominently in U.S. political discussions of the...
This WAPO op-ed from chief McCain economic adviser Donald Luskin may set some kind of record for unfortunate timing. Shorter Luskin: unless you happen to be among the few million.
I'll have more on the general subject of the 2000 election because of a new book this week, but since I happened to catch the replay of Leslie Stahl's puffball.
Idiotic. Hopefully it won't hurt the career of the UW alum. As (I think) Joe Sheehan argued earlier this year, I do think that managers have gotten a little too conservative about pitch counts, especially being to conscious of the arbitrary "100" number. I don't think...
Think good thoughts for Teresa.
Looks like Lehman is going to be liquidated. Merrill may be next.Remember all those glossy paens to investment bankers and hedge funds and CDOs and the frictionless magic of the.
This is unfortunate. A great writer....what to say? Didn't strike me as the type. He was one of my favorite contemporary writers; I didn't find his work depressing at all. ...I suppose this wouldn't be terribly different from learning that Roth had died, except that I...
This is troubling:Carnegie Mellon University, whose team placed first at Urban Challenge, is partnering up with tractor-maker Caterpillar to build the world's largest ground robot: a 700-ton robo dump truck.
. . . is because of the injuries he suffered as a POW?I mean have they?h/t Jason Zengerle.
Shorter Krauthammer:The Bush Doctrine? It's forty different things! It's democracy, whiskey and sexy! It's John Kennedy! Suck on that, Charles Gibson!Here's a testimony to the profound fucktacularity of the Bush years: In defending the the most ill-informed and incurious vice presidential nominee in modern American history,...
Stooping to a new, trivial low for this blog, I offer The Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator. The instructions are a little unclear -- full name? first name only? first.
Hilzoy:You'd think that $5,000 to $14,000 a year would be a small price to pay for putting violent sex offenders behind bars. Apparently, Sarah Palin disagrees.I guess policies that prevent.