I understand that the presidential taint-tasters at Powerline are beyond rescue, but is it so unreasonable to expect a trio of hacks at least to agree on some sort of basic narrative about what the United States is supposed to be pursuing in Iraq?Here's Assrocket, just...
John Cole notes a profoundly embarrassing installment in the conservative war on aesthetics by Erick Erickson, who mocks the "'it's just fiction' defense" of Jim Webb." (Next, those crazy liberals.
Via Juan Cole, we read of a minister from Houston who is running around the country insisting that Republicans need to be defeated because George W. Bush is delaying the.
USS Michigan represented more of an evolution of the pre-dreadnought type than a revolution in the sense of Dreadnought. The next four classes of American battleships took the lessons of Dreadnought to heart, combining all big-gun armaments with speeds in excess of 20 knots. USS Arkansas,...
The more I read, the more I'm dubious about the apparent coming increase in gender segregation in K-12 schools. Neil reminds us of The Happy Feminist's terrific post this summer.
Waterboarding--now officially endorsed by the Vice President of the United States (whether his lackeys lie about it or not)--is, in fact, torture. Lederman and Balkin explain in detail. I also.
K-Lo's attempts to convince herself that Rick Santorum can win are pretty sad. Still--particularly since she seems to realize its futility on some level--I don't think that she can hold a candle to Time-Approved Real Clear Politics' prediction of the 2000 elections on November 6, 2000:We...
Erik identifies the most objectionable thing offered up by a Hitchens in his New Yorker profile; he's become pathetic enough that it's hard to dislike him entirely. I like Mimi.
I think I can speak for nearly everyone in wishing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a happy 50th birthday (which he would be celebrating, of course, if he abided by the Gregorian rather.
This is strangely comforting:Let us assume that a vampire need feed only once a month. This is certainly a highly conservative assumption given any Hollywood vampire film. Now two things happen when a vampire feeds. The human population decreases by one and the vampire population increases...
As much as I hate to concede any point to Tim McCarver...I knew Chris Duncan was a bad outfielder, but I didn't know that he made Pete Incaviglia look like.
Shorter Verbatim Camille Paglia: "I was bitterly disappointed after voting for Ralph Nader that he didn't devote himself to helping build a strong third party in this country." Paglia was.