Shorter guy who got his Instalanche today: "If I've learned anything from reading David Brooks, it's that when journalists write about small-town America, they're even worse than the people who rationalized the European conquest of the 'Orient.'"
On this day in 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered the remnants of the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant. For some reason the flag is flying at.
Mark Graber passes along this chilling story from the eminent political scientist Walter Murphy, author of the classic Elements of Judicial Strategy and many other major works (and a bestselling.
Shortly after the new millennium failed to bring the Son of Man roaring back on a steed of fire, Tom DeLay thoughtfully pondered the nation's future. He was optimistic that eight years of distracted, feculent Clintonian rule would be replaced by a more god-fearing enterprise devoted...
Captain Ed:Moqtada al-Sadr has decided to finally acknowledge that the surge strategy in Baghdad will undermine the basis of his power in Iraq, and has ordered the Mahdi Army to.
Imus in the Morning:IMUS: So, I watched the basketball game last night between -- a little bit of Rutgers and Tennessee, the women's final.ROSENBERG: Yeah, Tennessee won last night --.
The area now known as modern Finland came into the Swedish Christian orbit in the 13th century. Ethnically and linguistically distinct from Western Scandinavia, the Finns Christianized late and did not participate in the various Viking invasions of Western Europe. The Swedish crown established a political...
Reacting to Phyllis Schlafly's latest support of a husband's right to rape his wife (another example here), the Happy Feminist makes an excellent point: Schlafly has essentially the same conception.
More PleaseHey, clinching is clinching even if you do it while losing to a team that I don't believe had previously scored while Pelosi was speaker. The Flames/Red Wings matchup.
A Brief, Open Letter to My Students:Please stop with the semicolons; you have clearly never learned their proper usage. I don't blame you for this, of course. At some point in your formative years you must have encountered a teacher who encouraged you to use this...
Shorter Robert Turner: "A bullshit law passed during the brief period of Federalist dominance in the 1790s -- and a law that has resulted in exactly one indictment and zero.
Hey, remember that time we sold some weapons to terrorist Iran and gave the money to some terrorists in Nicaragua, all the while claiming that we'd never negotiate with terrorist?.