Since my morning appointment has been cancelled (received the phone call just as I was getting my coffee, so no chance to go back to bed), I’m sitting in my office with nothing to do. Since I
How bad is it when the story of 380 tons of lost explosives can’t even make a blip on my outrage meter? Really, what could these people do that they haven’t already done? If someone wrote
Nice catch by Matt Duss. For all that we were worried about the journalistic black hole that a Houston-Boston World Series would have precipitated, Bush actually has a much closer relationship with B
Another of the American Conservative articles is an endorsement of the Constitution (sic) Party’s candidate by founder Howard Phillips. One advantage of supporting a no-hope candidate is the po
Generally, the assumption that a tribute album will suck is as safe as assuming that a David Brooks column will be insipid hackery, and the rare exceptions are not likely to include “Werewolves
Today, I showed The Battle of Algiers to my Military Intervention class. I was thinking about skipping out; a film doesn’t really require my presence beyond an intial hit of the “play̶
It has been duly noted that John Kerry recently received the influential and crucial endorsement of Joss Whedon (a moment of silence, please, for Jonah Goldberg, as his “conservatism is ascende
Brad and Matt are having a conversation that I absolute must comment on. My inner nerd demands it. Brad Delong, thinking outside the box, concludes that Neville Chamberlain made a mistake in standing
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