Of course, I'm immensely disappointed that Bobby Jindal will not be introducing his castrating, exorcising, dinosaur-hating, all around weird-ass psychology to a nation desperate for laughs.We needed you, Bobby Jindal. You let us down. We won't forget this.
It appears that the Starbucks between my Lexington apartment and my office will be closing; this will force me, if I want coffee, to go several dozen feet out of.
Jeff Lewis has a good article in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists on minimal vs. robust deterrence. The latter, advocated by folks like Albert Wohlstetter, asserts that nuclear deterrence is.
A surprising development (to me at least) has been the mass media's recent rehabilitation of Tommie Smith and John Carlos. The same cultural institutions that almost universally excoriated the two American athletes for giving a Black Power salute from the medals stand at the 1968 Olympic...
If you've never seen Joy Nash's awesome Fat Rant you should do so soon.
...So English should be the "official language" of Germany now too? Here's Patrick Ruffini on Obama's German flyers (for an event IN GERMANY):This is pretty extraordinary. A candidate for the.
The news that John McCain doesn't understand even basic facts about the strategy around which he's conducting most of his campaign is obviously extremely important. First, CBS's judicious editing demonstrates the extent to which the media is still willing to cover for Maverick McStraightTalk. But more...
This certainly looks ugly:A fellow student-athlete at Iowa alleged she was sexually assaulted by two football players on October 14, 2007. Within 36 hours of the assault the victim reported.
Christian at Defense Tech makes a catch:Obama flew from Iraq to Amman on an MV-22 Osprey from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Transport squadron 162 -- the newest Osprey squadron to deploy.
This has to be a joke:Russian bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons could be deployed to Cuba in response to U.S. plans to install a missile defense system in Eastern Europe, a Russian newspaper reported Monday, citing an unnamed senior Russian air force official.The report in...
This is more in Rob's and Scott's wheelhouse, but Tim at Walking the Berkshires is compiling a list of the "Top Ten Movie Soliloquies." He embeds Robert Shaw's famous Jaws.
Jonah Goldberg actually compares the "success" of Teh Surge to -- oh, Jeebus, its just too fantastic to spoil:Recall that Bill Clinton, with his dovish record and roster of "character.