Imagine my suprise when, while channel surfing this morning, I come across a showing of The Manchurian Candidate. What, you say? Not so surprising? Yes, but one does not typically find a film like The Manchurian Candidate on the Encore True Stories channel.
It's possible that Rummy said this with a straight face:``I don't have any evidence...'' that Venezuela will turn over some of the weapons to Colombian rebels, Rumsfeld told the Herald.``All.
Via Pandagon, Jonah Goldberg writes:I guarantee you that among PhD candidates in America’s leading universities, for every “conservative” who believes the world was created in six days there are 100.
Lindsay notes that Saul Bellow, who many smart people consider the greatest American novelist of the past century (and who was born in Lachine, a suburb of my beloved Montreal), has passed away.The superb critic Terry Teachout has comments that are interesting, in that they probably...
Congratulations to Seb at Sadly, No! and his partner, who will be having their first child in June. To ask the most obvious question, will the child take his/her father's.
Alright, I guess now that we're Opening Day +2, I'd better offer my predictions for the upcoming season. So:AL East: NY, Bos (WC), Bal, Tor, TBYou won't see these picks.
Rox Populi offers some suitably annotated (linked? The discourse of the internets confuses me) Yeats.
Eszter Hargittai commemorates the end of Hungary's involvement in World War II, 60 years ago today. Hungary, like many nations around the world, has yet to come to terms with.
Or not...But at least my claim that the Richie Sexson signing was brutal is looking good! Oh, wait...
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Yglesias does a nice job cleaning up the latest vomitous mass left by David Brooks. Sure, feeling-type intel would be great, especially if it were, you know, accurate. The problem.
An entire inning of tonight's Red Sox-Yankees game was wasted with an interview by one idiot of another idiot on the topic of steroids. If they keep this up, I.