I know it's redundant to use a phrase like "Althouse reveals her ignorance," but in this post the dumb just clings to her words like fresh morning dew:And why does reading even need to be a separate subject from history in school? Give them history texts...
XM suspends Opie & Anthony 30 days for the hye-larious rape fantasies on their program. (I'm not going to say "jokes," because they weren't. They weren't even in the form.
I'm not sure what's more depressing about yesterday's debate--the current frontrunner enthusiastically and unequivocally supporting torture, or how well in went over in the audience. Obviously, Giuliani's authoritarianism is going.
Garance, Matt and zuzu have already amply demonstrated the bad faith, distortions, and selective evidence of the latest manifestation of Christina Hoff Sommers's feeble "American feminists don't care about the suppression of Islamic women" routine. And, of course, American feminists are in a no-win situation. One...
Nancy Nall has a very good and insightful post about the new biography of Warren Zevon compiled by his long -suffering (and suffering, and suffering) ex-wife Crystal, which was also.
A toast of Campari, ginger ale and soda to Jerry.He told Christine Amanpour on CNN last week that he'd been praying to God for 20 more years of life so.
In the second half of my American Foreign Policy class every year, I try to get the students to talk about the risks of militarism. By then, they've read Walter Russell Mead's Special Providence and understand what Jefferson thought about consolidation of power and standing armies....
To add to Matt's point that the perception that Wolfowitz is corrupt and hypocritical has actual consequences, it should also be noted that Wolfowitz is particularly vulnerable on this point.
E.B. White Travis Bickle James Lileks on Disneyland:It’s clean. It’s so clean and perfect you wonder why everything doesn’t look like this. But why is it clean? You see no.
Shorter Verbatim Rubble Boy: "[University administrators are installing Wudu facilities for Muslim students] because people are afraid they'll blow things up."Now, Reynolds tries to disguise his jokey racism by suggesting that maybe this will somehow eventually lead to Christian students blowing things up because . ....
Monday, the AP reported that Japan's parliament voted to hold a referendum on Article 9 of its constitution. That provision in the constitution very strictly limits Japanese use of force..
Good times:In New York City, Mayor Jimmy Walker demonstrated his support for the cause by organizing a day-long Beer Parade on May 14, 1932. An estimated 100,000 people turned out.