The stab-in-the-back narrative is now in full gear. What Kaus merely abets, Glenn Reynolds, Mark Steyn, and the editors of Investors Business Daily push full throttle; America will lose because of the perfidy of liberals. The Surge is providing the proximate excuse. After four years of...
The execution of Cicero... very well done. Pullo has killed more than his share in cold blood, a fact that we forget when he's murdering nameless extras, but the workmanlike.
Sometime last year, Rob posted a clip of Orson Welles -- swaying and slurring with drink -- trying to navigate his way through a television commercial. It was brilliant. For.
In 1351, a Lao princeling who had fled as a refugee to the Court of Angkor raised an army of 10000 Khmer to defeat rebellious Lao tribes on Angkor's northern reaches. Fa Ngum, as he was called, traced his ancestry to Khun Lo, a legendary king...
A little over two weeks after the humiliating conclusion of the seige at Stalingrad, Reich Minister for Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels delivered his famous Sportpalastrede address in Berlin. Summoning.
As we noted a week ago during the Althouse "tiny prick" fiasco, of the targets of LGM's "adopt a wingnut" program, Mickey Kaus has consistently reacted in the most cordial.
This is quite correct:Well, no. Look, Matt Yglesias leading a caucus of 51 Democratic Senators that includes Joe Lieberman, Bill Nelson, and Tim Johnson couldn't get much done in these circumstances either. Nor could Matt Stoller. It's not Reid's fault that there aren't 60 votes for...
It's now the Year of the Pig. In honor of the Chinese New Year, do yourselves a favor and stop by The Wonderful Pig of Knowledge! -- probably the best.
Another nonagenarian bastard is dead. As head of the French police, Maurice Papon was a Nazi collaborator under the Vichy regime, overseeing the transfer of at least 1500 French Jews.
Just as the addition of Steve Vai to Whitesnake produced the legendary 1989 album Slip of the Tongue, I expect that the unification of Matt Duss with Alterdestiny will lead to great things.
Honestly. If she would just stop making facially absurd observations about the world, I would stop pointing these things out. Shorter Althouse, 7:17 a.m.: "John McCain's creepy, fascist music video.
Scroll to the bottom of this column and weep. Do prominent op-ed pages need more women? Absolutely. Law professors? Why not. Conservative, even? Might be OK at the Times, although.