Fascinating; I find out that David Brin has a Daily Kos diary and a blog on the same day that I teach David Brin's Thor Meets Captain America in National Security Policy. It's interesting, because I've been assigning that story for years, but I'd never had...
The Habeas Restoration bill failed 56-43; Christy has the tally. Unless I missed one, no Democrat voted "naye," including Nelson, Landrieu, and Conrad. The ever-more-disgraceful Joe Lieberman, of course, did..
Brad Plumer and Noam Scheiber have a good article about the loathsome GOP corporate lackey Haley Barbour, the kind of "small government" Republican who ensures that any budget deal contains.
Pompeii, 79 CE.The Great Fire of London, 1666Irish Famine, 1840sTangshan Earthquake, 1976Boston Red Sox, 2007?Seriously, I don't think I can watch this shit any longer. If someone could please get in touch with me after the season is over and gently fill me in on what...
So Bill Maher is funny sometimes. But for the love of whatever, he has got to stop talking about women. At all. Because he can't do it without demonstrating how.
A good article here about the conflict surrounding a new Planned Parenthood clinic in Aurora, IL. The clinic has been delayed by zoning issues with the local government, which is.
Scott Horton makes the case, which I think is correct. There's obviously no question that Mukasey isn't someone I would prefer to see appointed as AG. But the relevant universe of options here is not "people qualified to be AG," but "people George Bush would appoint...
This has always been a non-issue for me since I subscribe to the dead-trees edition, but for better or for worse most of the Times website is going to be.
So we're not even three full weeks into the semester, and for incomprehensible reasons I already need to submit textbook orders for Spring. I'm reworking the reading list for my.
If the tank doesn't interest you, skip this post. After the dreadnought and the strategic bomber, the tank is probably the most overrated weapon of the 20th century. However, while enthusiasm for the first proved to be folly, and for the second extremely destructive folly, the...
...it's Mukasey, the former chief judge of the Southern District of New York and partner at Patterson Belknap someone and someone. He most recently made waves with an August Wall.
In case any more evidence were necessary, here's yet another example of why the Supreme Court's decisions banning school admission plans that consider race were just plain wrong.UPDATE [BY SL]:.