I'm not taking a position on whether or not the coach should have been fired, but I do have to wonder what a "Christlike" margin of victory would have been:The coach of a Texas high school basketball team that beat another team 100-0 was fired Sunday,...
Six of the sweetest words in the English language: "This is William Kristol's last column." Although it will really limit public discourse in this country now that Kristol's thoroughly uninteresting.
NY politics maven Julia has more. If I read her correctly, although my framing was more negative (and my title may have -- like some others -- implied that I.
This isn't exactly a revelation, but Ron Rosenbaum inexplicably fails to include the song that is arguably BJ's five-minute shite-load, "We Didn't Start the Fire." When I teach historiography and methods every other year, I typically devote about ten minutes on the first day to that...
This came crawling across my Facebook news feed this morning. It was not an ironic gesture. I have no further comment, except to note that Krauthammer's fan club exceeds Kristol's.
Stephen Walt proposes an opening class:By a "classic work," I mean a book or article that is a genuine "must-read" in the field when it is published, and that retains.
Short term, tactical thinking:When Israel first encountered Islamists in Gaza in the 1970s and '80s, they seemed focused on studying the Quran, not on confrontation with Israel. The Israeli government officially recognized a precursor to Hamas called Mujama Al-Islamiya, registering the group as a charity. It...
CSI gone mad:The pilot reported the plane hit a flock of birds shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport which shut down both his jets.This engine and the right engine, which.
I simply do not understand how anyone could believe that the Israeli military operations in Gaza would result in the overthrow of Hamas:If there is any significant disenchantment with Hamas.
New York Senate ex-leadership edition.
Shorter Harvie Wilkinson: "President Obama should make sure that future appointments carry on our tribunal's tradition of civility and ideological moderation, as exemplified by Michael "Mini-Nino" Luttig." I really hope.
Via Chotiner, I think this post from the usually entertaining David Carr contains some classic fallacies:And what’s particularly clear this season is that the Academy will reward excellence, no matter.