All with a passing interest in political theory ought to read Russell Arben Fox's summary statement on communitarianism, available here. Most communitarianism is annoying (hardly a unique feature of communitarianism), but there's a set of serious and compelling ideas in there. I will have a substantive...
Here's a disease vector that Michael Crichton won't be writing about anytime soon.Oysterman Jim Aguiar had never had to deal with the bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus in his 25 years working.
And that little boy nobody liked grew up to be...the nation's chief Inquistor and Underwear Drawer Inspector!I'm reading Jan Crawford Greenburg's new book about the Supreme Court, which is pretty.
(Via Pandagon) We'll be hearing more about this story, I hope, in the coming months as the civil case goes to trial. Three years ago in Cass County, Texas, a handful of drunken mouth-breathers humiliated a developmentally disabled black man for an entire night, then dumped...
Smiling, apparently, conveys low social status. Who knew?
David at Danger Room has a couple very good posts on the possible origins of the EFPs being found in Iraq. He points out, as Andrew Cockburn noted last week,.
Ben beat me to this, but indeed Sunday's Bobo was remarkably devoid of evidence and irrelevant even by the standards of his sociological thumbsuckers. Not only am I, shall we say, unpersuaded that even in Park Slope there are large numbers of parents force-feeding "Brian Eno,...
Had an aggressive glioblastoma not gobbled his brain in 1991, the late Republican political strategist Lee Atwater would have turned 56 today. One of the most vile political figures in.
When it came out, I assumed that The Departed was too good and too alive to be competitive for Best Picture; I'm happy to be wrong, and it's good that.
Is it my imagination, or is this thing running long?...Update by SL: I've mostly had it on the background while writing--which is easy given that they're giving out roughly one award every two hours--but aren't those human shadow puppet things atrocious even by the standards of...
Here's Brad Neely's catchy follow-up to the acclaimed George Washington music video . . . .
Radley Balko (click through for a summary of all the evidence of how much violence has dropped because of the surge) on the Instapundit-approved evidence-free assertions of Patrick Ruffini:I wish.