I don't much care, really, if Scooter Libby is pardoned or not; while he certainly deserves it, there's no particular good that will come of his actually going to jail. But when people talk about it, I'd really like them to recognize what a pardon means:...
Plane to catch, so I will outsource to The Left, which means that in a way I did kind of contribute original material...
Recently, I wondered about the reliability of Glenn Reynolds's claim--invoked yet again--that Talleyrand 1)said that "you can do anything with bayonets, except sit on them," and 2)that he actually meant.
She's mad. What else can you say? Scott deals with the substance of Althouse's current lunacy down here, referencing Jill's post here and the WaPo story here. See also Lindsay.So let's take Althouse's wrongheadedness as demonstrated. I'd instead like to highlight the more surreal aspect of...
The House passed the Employee Free Choice Act last week, which if signed into law will allow workers to organize when over 50% of a workforce signs cards indicating that.
Ann Althouse.I've been through this before, but the idea that we can assume fully "rational" employers who will infer nothing from this kind of shaming other than "these women are.
A brilliant post by Belle Waring (but I repeat myself) about the crude reductionism and misogynist (and, for that matter, misandrist) double standards of Laura Sessions Stepp and her even more reactionary admirers. This is as good a summary as you can find:It always goes back...
I found this article fascinating:Britain and Ireland are so thoroughly divided in their histories that there is no single word to refer to the inhabitants of both islands. Historians teach.
A department at my university recently interviewed a job candidate who spent about 30 minutes at dinner one evening explaining how s/he and his/her partner spend their free time constructing.
Kingdaddy makes an interesting comparison:If you look at Japan then, and the United States now, you might see some familiar faces. A determined faction of aggrieved nationalists, having gambled the nation’s fortunes on high-risk ventures (the invasion of China or Iraq), now see the expansion of...
Commenter (and blogger) Bean raises some interesting points with respect to this post. I'll respond to each point separately:First, while I agree that the current iteration of abortion law is.
Shorter Victor Davis Hanson:I welcome the triumphant return of comic book standards of right and wrong in this degenerate age, a time when irritating postmodernist spoilsports constantly insist that moral.