I'm not sure, reading this NY Times story about "purity" balls, whether this incarnation of the ball beast is better or worse than the more common one, in which girls pledge their virginity to their fathers. Here that the event is so patently misogynist (not to...
George Packer writes:If the fear of Baghdad and Falluja is what keeps foreign powers from saving huge numbers of Burmese from their own government’s callousness, that will be one more.
I remember in the 2004 Playoffs there was a trend of reversing them calls and getting them right. I liked that much more than overruling clear home runs based on.
Wow.Just . . . wow. As Thers points out, it takes an extraordinary concentration of assholery to fantasize about Manhattan needing a terrorist "wake-up call."But seriously, if you want to read something interesting about Red Dawn, I'd recommend Rob's review and not the thread at Apuzzo's...
Lyndon Johnson, requesting an additional $125 million in economic and military aid to Vietnam, 18 May 1964:The vigorous decisions taken by the new Government of Vietnam to mobilize the full.
Between December 1941 and August 1945, Japan and the United Kingdom fought an extraordinarily brutal war over control of Southeast Asia. In the larger arc of World War II history,.
Publius tries to make a case to keep him quasi-inside the tent. I do share his basic premise -- achieving legislative ends is more important than feeling good about punishing someone for its own sake -- so his conclusion is not as unreasonable as I might...
Alex Blaze collects data suggesting that Barack Obama isn't just a radical angry black Christian liberation theologizin' Muslim ex-Muslim communizin' hippie terrorist; he's probably a gay radical angry black Christian.
Calvin Coolidge, speaking to the American Medical Association, 17 May 1927:What part the physician will play in the further advancement of the well-being of the world is an interesting speculation..
This is encouraging:The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that Republican Senator Ted Stevens is trailing by two percentage points in his bid for re-election. Stevens attracts 45% of the vote while Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich (D) earns 47%. A month ago, it was Stevens with...
Tim Marchman says that the Subway Series this year "is no battle for honor between two hardened champions, but a pair of bums fighting over a ham sandwich in an.
Having been in possession of the following incendiary clips since last week, I have agonized over whether to subject the fair readership of LGM to the blistering visage of Mickey.