Blogger robots will take over Presidential Statement duties until I return to the intertube grid sometime next week.Meantime, if any of our readers live in Emden, Illinois (pop. 500), I'll be there, drinking and staring at the walls with my extended in-laws, for the next few...
Matt writes:As you can perhaps tell from my dyspeptic response to some of our Ideas Festival sponsors' efforts to brand themselves as "green," (see also Boeing's hilarious hand-crank powered flashlight).
Harry Truman, statement on the independence of the Philippines, 3 July 1946:The independence achieved today by the Philippines comes after a period of forty-eight years of American sovereignty over the.
This is djw's department, but the Sonics will officially be leaving Seattle. As an NBA nonfan, it's especially easy for me to be happy that the city and state refused to sub,it to the usual extortion demands from plutocrats. But having lost a favorite team (in...
Who killed whom here?
This is what I've been up to for two of the last three weeks:
If only Senate elections were every two years:The new Q-Poll has Obama has crushing McCain 56 to 35 in Connecticut. No real surprise there. The same poll also finds that even if McCain were to pick native son Joe Lieberman as his runningmate, only 14 percent...
Way back in 1978, Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act to undo the damage wrought by the Supreme Court in Geduldig v. Aiello, in which the Court infamously (foot)noted that:The.
Best wishes to Brian Beutler for a speedy recovery.
John F. Kennedy, statement on the death of Ernest Hemingway, 2 July 1961:Few Americans have had a greater impact on the emotions and attitudes of the American people than Ernest Hemingway. From his first emergence as one of the bright literary stars in Paris during the...
Jeffrey Rosen continues to claim that liberals "dodged a bullet" when Roberts and Alito were appointed. I continue to find this as unpersuasive as it was a year ago. Some.
Pathetic. (See also.) Wealthy people with excellent financial prospects and little debt get favorable treatement from banks? Fetch me the smelling salts!