This is the fourth of a nine part series on the Patterson School Summer Reading List.1. China's Trapped Transition, Minxin Pei2. The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs3. Illicit, Moises Naim4. In Spite of the Gods, Edward LuceEdward Luce, formerly the South Asian bureau chief for the...
With respect to the disgraceful Libby commutation, Laura of 11D provides some interesting data about how likely a petitioner not connected with the Bush administration is to get a pardon.
You will be happy to know that Libertas, home of Conservative Thought (sic) About Film (sic) has screened the latest Michael Bay joint and declared in free from wrongthink.Another amusing.
There was a lot of nervous chatter when gmail was introduced about the google ads that would run in the sidebars of people's emails. Though the anxiety was allayed -- a little -- when Google insisted that the ads were generated by a computer and promised...
I wrote last night about what I thought was the most glaring irony of the Libby commutation. I should have thought, when Scott brought Karla Faye Tucker into the discussion,.
A bunch of people ask some really interesting questions in these two threads, questions that I think are deserving on their own post.lemuel pitkin writes:I think if you reframe the.
Fred Hiatt is the editorial page editor of The Washington Post.The Washington Post sums up the sharp rightward turn made inevitable by the judicial nominees whose confirmation they endorsed: "the outcome was simultaneously unsurprising and disappointing." I must admit I'm not sure why you would be...
Somebody's been reading Maureen Dowd today:Yes, did you see those photos of Bill and Hillary in Iowa, with him in that bright yellow shirt? We all know yellow is the.
Sara, pointing to this emailer warning his long-suffering ex-girlfriend that she'll never find anyone who's just so darn nice about "jokingly" threatening physical abuse and sending pictures of his dick.
Against my best judgment, saw Live Free or Die Hard last week. It's.... action packed.I'm a big fan of the first and third films in the Die Hard series, especially the first. Willis' McClane is an accidental action hero, which is a bit different than the...
Movies by the two worst directors regularly given major American studio projects who aren't Joel Schumacher have recently opened. And yet, I think I would sit through either of their.
A lot of ink (or e-ink) has been spilled today about Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence. Scott touched on Bush's consistency when it comes to pardons -- loyalty is.