I am remiss in noting the passing last month of Ted Briggs. Briggs was the last of the three survivors of the destruction of HMS Hood at the Battle of Denmark Strait. Obits here and here.Here's an animated depiction of the loss of Hood, including an...
Consider: The Washington State Cougars are currently 1-10, with only a victory over Portland State to their credit. The Washington Huskies are 0-10, and likely to lose at Cal. The.
Jules Crittenden:George W. Bush did not solve all the problems of the world's most troubled and dangerous region. You don't say!Crittenden's larger claim -- that the Bush Doctrine has somehow.
I suppose this silly column doesn't really merit further discussion, but I think gmack's comment merits elevation to the main page:So far as I can tell, no one here knows whether McPherson harasses women. But we can tell that his argument is utterly ridiculous: if his...
How can a stigma become attached to an individual based on an informational seminar everyone has to attend? Mcpherson's tear-stained column is really some classic whining about nothing, but admittedly.
Judge Richard Leon -- an appointee of George W. Bush -- issued a major ruling following the wake of the Supreme Court's Boumediene decision yesterday, ordering five Guantanamo detainees released.
I find that "route" directions (turn left at the third McDonalds, the one right next to the Fifth Third Bank) almost invariably get me lost in interesting and disastrous ways. Survey directions (NESW) are much more helpful; contra Ezra, in the city it's pretty easy to...
From today's bukakke party for Ted Stevens.Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho: "I’m en route from downtown Anchorage, to the Ted Stevens International Airport. And as we round the curb and pull.
I have another piece on piracy up at Comment is Free. And while we're on the subject, recall that David Axe is heading to Somalia in order to interact with.
Ed Kilgore says that "a critical plurality of Americans don't much like abortion but care a whole lot about when and why abortions occur." Assuming that this is true -- and there's some evidence for it -- the obvious answer is that since there's no way...
Nick Kristof and Anne Applebaum are being way too even-handed; perhaps David Greenberg needs to write another article about how liberals are bad for trying to actually understand a war.
This is pathetic. For a variety of reasons I can't quite explain, I listen to right wing radio during my 15-minute drives to and from campus; this is about as.