Fascinating.In "Steel Drivin’ Man," Scott Reynolds Nelson argues that the John Henry story was no tall tale, and Henry himself no myth. Historians have long speculated that the John Henry ballads, which began circulating in the 1870’s, referred to a real railroad worker, but Mr. Nelson,...
Very nice post from Ezra Klein:More pernicious, I'm starting to think, is anti-paranoid punditry in American politics, in which scary-but-plausible theories are dismissed simply by calling them conspiratorial. Because we.
Because my television has been broken for two months now, I'm not suprised I missed this from Condoleezza Rice, appearing a few weeks back on 60 Minutes:"You have conceded that.
An interesting article by Warren Richey about whether the Supremes will "trim" the appalling Military Commissions Act. My guess, as Richey suggests, is that the Court will do pretty much nothing--Kennedy invited Congress to act, and it did. These kinds of interactions between courts and legislatures...
Via Matt Weiner, it looks like the fine folks of Kansas are about to tell Phil "He's What's the Matter With Kansas" Kline that his "services" shall no longer be.
Why in the name of all that is holy did Slate hire Anne Applebaum to write a column called Foreigners: Opinions about events beyond our borders? Is she in some.
I think there's a lot of truth to what Matt says here. All I would add is that in the House, where the Democrats have the best shot, the structural advantages of incumbents are particularly formidable, and a slight downtick in the general climate could create...
Bob Owens scrawls his latest post in poo.
You knew that Hitchens would have to respond to the Lancet study, didn't you? I'll refrain from excerpting, and rather summarize:1. The Lancet Study is wrong for some reason. I.
So saith Assrocket:In fact, as we have often noted, if you listened to any of the speeches President Bush gave on Iraq in 2003 or read the Congressional authorization on the war, every rationale that has ever been discussed is there. And, as I have often...
After further reflection on the uses and mis-uses of statistics, I have concluded -- along with Treason-in-Defense-of-Slavery Yankee, the Milton Friedman Appreciation Society and Supper Club, and Instahack -- that.
It's still claiming lives...As it turns out, there were two casualties at last weekend's national re-enactment of the Battle of Perryville: Two horses died.The animals died during the Oct. 7.