I'm off for three weeks to the eastern half of the continental United States, where I'll be visiting a whole lot of nutters family and wondering if Victor Davis Hanson has written anything stupid since the last time I looked at -- oh, wait. Scratch that....
Last year I received a copy of Chasing Ghosts, by Paul Rieckhoff. Rieckhoff was a Lieutenant in the Army National Guard, and served in Baghdad through 2003 to early 2004..
First things first, Ocean's Thirteen is better than its predecessor, yet not as good as the first film. Given the characteristics of the first two, it would have been deeply.
The Massachusetts legislature has rejected the proposed constitutional amendment calling for the revocation of gay and lesbian marriage rights and the restoration of bigotry by a 151-45 vote. It should be noted that this is precisely the opposite of what was predicted by proponents of the...
What's really funny about Glenn Reynolds' latest passive-aggressive "nice freedom of the press you have here, be a shame if something happened to it" routine (not, alas, a new one).
Ezra gets this entirely correct:The remarkable thing about the growing liberal hawk literature on Iran is its evasiveness -- the unwillingness to speak in concrete terms of both the threat.
Riffing off this poll and this piece by Dana, Matt asks why Clinton has such a huge majority among progressive women -- enough to make her a solid primary favorite -- which doesn't carry over among more conservative women. This is an important question, because if...
So the other day a Red Wings fan asked me what I thought about the Flames in '08, and I told her that they had a potentially championship-quality base but.
God, how I love employee pilferage. I mean . . . um . . . that's illegal!!!!:Shoppers at Wal-Mart stores across America are loading carts with merchandise — maybe a.
Roger Ailes reads MoDo so you don't have to:Maureen Dowd embarassed herself again today with a column comparing Tony Blair and Tony Soprano. Did you know they both have the same first name? And that's just the beginning of the comparative fun! It seems that neither...
Why is Camille Paglia being given space by Salon (in 2007!)?Essentially every sentence in the thing is vacuous idiocy, of course, but this is particularly remarkable:Whatever his high ideals, Gore.
Spoilers aplenty ahead, although if you haven't isolated yourself from all media for the past four days I can't imagine anything here will be surprising. I think it was a.