Smiling, apparently, conveys low social status. Who knew?
David at Danger Room has a couple very good posts on the possible origins of the EFPs being found in Iraq. He points out, as Andrew Cockburn noted last week,.
Ben beat me to this, but indeed Sunday's Bobo was remarkably devoid of evidence and irrelevant even by the standards of his sociological thumbsuckers. Not only am I, shall we.
Had an aggressive glioblastoma not gobbled his brain in 1991, the late Republican political strategist Lee Atwater would have turned 56 today. One of the most vile political figures in the pre-Karl Rove era, Atwater was especially skilled at adapting white ressentiment to the post-civil rights...
When it came out, I assumed that The Departed was too good and too alive to be competitive for Best Picture; I'm happy to be wrong, and it's good that.
Is it my imagination, or is this thing running long?...Update by SL: I've mostly had it on the background while writing--which is easy given that they're giving out roughly one.
Here's Brad Neely's catchy follow-up to the acclaimed George Washington music video . . . .
Radley Balko (click through for a summary of all the evidence of how much violence has dropped because of the surge) on the Instapundit-approved evidence-free assertions of Patrick Ruffini:I wish.
Part I: HMAS SydneyPart II: HSK KormoranThe following facts are beyond dispute: A battle occured between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. Sydney and her crew were lost without a trace,.
Ed Morrissey and Kevin Hayden are right--this is a bullshit smear piece on Romney. Indeed, it seems to me straightforward religious bigotry. I mean, seriously, he had a relative with 5 wives during the McKinley administration? Another one gave sermons about polygamy in 1852? How could...
Here's what I love about the wingnut-o-sphere:Step 1: Read on Instapundit that "the surge is working." Step 2: Learn (via Rubble Boy's link)that former Bush/Cheney webmaster claims in a Townhall.
Tim Noah:But the terms of eviction from Wikipedia raise a larger issue than the bruised ego of one scribbler (or Jungian analyst or anime artist or Finnish security consultant). Why.