As I've noted before, being an executioner is not necessarily considered the most respectable of professions (which is, I think, a sign of waning for support for capital punishment. So what if the numbers have yet to bear me out). Because of that, and because of...
February 1, 1933:All about us the warning signs of [the nation's] collapse are apparent. Communism with its method of madness is making a powerful and insidious attack upon our dismayed.
There are a couple frustrating elements to Zev Chafets's profile of Mike Huckabee. For example, he completely botches the discussion of the DuMond pardon, disappearing the lunatic anti-conspiracy angle that.
Reading about his disgusting ongoing smears of Obama, I can't say I'm any less broken up about Wanker Caucus President Bob Kerrey deciding to abjure a potential return to the Senate. I understand that politics is a tough business, but it seems to me that the...
From the NYT article on the home edition of the Merck/Meriel manual, which sounds like Gray's Anatomy meets DSM-IV meets Physician's Desk Reference for the insane world of domesticated animals:.
Some thoughts on this comment thread:DJW is absolutely correct to follow up Matt's condemnation of Dawkins statement on Catholicism. It isn't just illiberal; it's virtually totalitarian. Dawkins is, essentially, arguing.
Holy crap, the Doughboy actually did it. Though I'm sorely tempted by chapter-length non sequiturs like "Liberal Fascist Economics" and "Liberal Racists: The Eugenic Ghost in the Fascist Machine," I'll be especially keen to read the chapter titled "Adolf Hitler: Man of the Left." Admittedly, Goldberg's...
Yglesias is generating some unwarranted abuse from his commenters here. Yglesias links to this TNR article by Damon Linker. While Linker's piece suffers from some of the defects of the.
I agree with Matt that 1)it was stupid of Obama's campaign to pick a fight with Paul Krugman, but 2)Krugman's point is very misguided. I don't think that Obama's rhetoric.
There's good news out of Saudi Arabia today. King Abdullah has "pardoned" the rape victim who had been sentenced to six months in jail and 200 lashes for being in a car with a man who was not her relative. As the Times put it in...
A little disappointing. A lot of good stuff, of course, but the narrative arc was way too similar the last episode of Season 2; it might have been better to.
Joe "MoJoe" Lieberman is set to endorse John McCain. Why would an ostensible "independent Democrat" do such a thing? Why, the war in Iraq of course, with both McCain and.