To elaborate a bit on Atrios' one liner, Salon has always been a strange animal. I was actually a premium subscriber for a couple years, and it's always published good writers and interesting stuff. But it's as if there's some sort of Slate contrarianism magnet that...
I saw these guys opening for Rainer Maria at their farewell show at the Bowery, and...ugh, teh suck. Really, they were too generic for me to even say that I.
Alejandro Finisterre, leftist opponent of Franco, inventor of foosball, and a pioneer of airplane hijacking, died last week. Via Randy and Trend.
In response to Big Media Amanda, Michael Berube asks:Hey, I wonder if anyone here would rather read a regular column by Amanda Marcotte at Salon than, say, a regular column by Camille Paglia. Just asking.Admittedly, this probably doesn't do Amanda enough credit--I'd probably rather read a...
Project Runway, Exhibit A:Yes, it's a question of distance between you and ordinary mortals. Can someone explain how Nancy Pelosi has the nerve to tell a group of veterans that.
I have to sympathize with Chris Bertram's comment on Scott McLemee's Solidarity Forever. The post is in reference to McLemee's interview with Danny Postrel at Inside Higher Ed. The substance.
And that Dennis Miller is one outrageous dude!Dave Weigel notes that "the Half Hour News Hour, a news satire show produced by 24's Joel Surnow, is set to become one of the worst pieces of television ever - mentioned in the same breath as Pink Lady...
One hundred and nine years ago today, the pretext for an imperial war was laid as the USS Maine was obliterated by five tons of its own gunpowder. Two days.
John Jay gets the Loomis treatment.
Make sure to read the NYT article on the slides generated during planning for the Iraq War. The slides themselves are available from GWU. Hilzoy has good commentary.The story, incidentally, is written by Michael Gordon, well known arrogant stenographer and best friend of the administration...
Ann Friedman has an article about the "chivalrous" backlash to V-Day, which seems premised on the idea that nothing gets in the way of romancing women like the fact that.
I'm in the midst of reading FM 3-24, the new counter-insurgency manual for the Army and Marine Corps. While I expected a sophisticated document, the degree to which the manual.