Like Cara, I think I'll pass. Any allegedly feminist project that divides women into the category of "good" and "bad" based on how often they have sex, or uses the word "slut" pejoratively, really needs to go back to the drawing board.
Yglesias says what needs to be said about Andrew Sullivan's meditation on Marc Bloch:But on top of that, though there clearly is a sense in which current American politics is.
New York is rejecting federal money for "abstinence-only" sex "education." Good. (Meanwhile -- perhaps in a bid to attract the bullshit-libertarian vote he's alienated with his opposition to deposing regimes.
In case there was still any question about whether the anti-contraception position of Catholic hospitals who don't want to provide emergency contraception to rape victims (but certainly don't feel so strongly about the principle that they, say, want to stop performing secular functions with taxpayer money)...
A good analysis of the Manhattan [HT: DJA], which among other advantages over the martini has never evolved into "whiskey up" and, even more importantly, has never been re-defined to.
Tom Hilton observes the occasion. Now, I consider myself something of an expert on weird holidays -- tomorrow is Hobbit Day and Elephant Appreciation Day, by the way -- but.
In honor of Yom Kippur, and the 34th anniversary of the beginning of the Yom Kippur War, I think it's appropriate to review Abraham Rabinovich's The Yom Kippur War. Rabinovich is a journalist and US Army veteran who has written several books on Jewish and Israeli...
Progress!The portion of Baghdad in which Iraqi security forces are in control with minimal help from the American military has grown only slightly in recent months, to just over 8.
The big news around the office this week was this report from the Center for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington; it ranks the "most corrupt" members of Congress. There are.
This has been another edition etc.:The whole fracas of Petraeus, Crocker, MoveOn, etc. has had, to a good first approximation, no impact whatsoever on anything of any significance. Bush continues to be stubborn. Republicans continue to back Bush. The war continues to go poorly and continues...
Bad writing and thinking, defined.
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck and Nelson