Sadie Jones' Small Wars is a novel about British efforts to put down the Greek Cypriot insurgency in the mid-1950s. Jones concentrates on the Treherne family, including Hal, a British military officer, his wife Claire, and their two children. It's not quite right to say that...
A reader sends along an alternative analysis of the gravesites at Towton: Allow me to caution you to be a bit wary of the conclusions from this particular paper. Whereas.
Has any conference ever lost five bowl games in the same day?
Shorter Col. Mustard: "I believe I'm the millionth person to quote Ted Kennedy's Bork speech as if it was ipso facto beyond the pale, without actually noting anything in it that was inaccurate." What a justice who lost an up-or-down vote has to do with the...
It hasn't exactly been getting great reviews: the 1982 version had a plump, red thumbs-up rating of 69% on Rotten Tomatoes, whereas the sequel is at a festering, sickly 49%..
Silver's take is, as always, worth reading. To me, Palin still clearly has a serious chance of getting the 2012 nomination, and the key is point #3. The GOP establishment.
...by encouraging people to commit crimes: Keep those cards and letters (and fake Craigslist listings) flowing! He claims that the fact that I taught a college freshmen who is currently projecting his or her issues onto me reflects my abilities as a teacher, and then includes...
In accordance with the requirements of the Pundit-Blogger Accountability Act of 2010, here is my review of last year's predictions: Take it to the bank: Number of seats Democrats gain/lose.
The UK organization Sense About Science has released its annual list of moronic celebrity health and diet endorsements. The roster of honorees is somewhat Anglocentric; deserving Americans like the galactically.
"It's gonna be the 2010s, Mom. Aren't we supposed to be at war with the machines by now?" Um... (more…)
can be found over at UK Polling Report. They're insightful, comprehensive, and informative reviews of 2010 and previews of 2011 of the Tories, the Liberal Democrats, and Labour. Not surprisingly,.
In fairness, when you've already been the keynote speaker for whatever they were calling Pajamas Media at the time,your journalistic credibility can't really reach a lower point.