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Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck and Nelson
Yeah, I'd have to say that, when doing an empirical analysis of the KKK, "Perhaps the most limiting feature of our data is that we were unable to obtain any.
Lindsay has the news about NYC subway stations being wired for cell phone use. However, there is one minor error:If everything goes according to plan, all 277 underground stations will get cell phone service within 6 years. Unfortunately, the tunnels won't be wired. Must be a...
No, really -- Bob Kerrey actually said that about the utter fraud otherwise known as Rudy Giuliani. Hmmm. Something about that quotation seems incomplete. OK, so:“Giuliani did what the president.
Via Jeffrey Lewis at ArmsControlWonk, Chris Nelson is reporting that the Israeli airstrike on Syria targeted Scud missiles and missile parts. As Jeffrey notes, this makes a lot more sense.
Turns out that the U.S. Senate has nothing better to do than to spend time passing a resolution to condemn free speech. Yep, you read that right: the Senate today officially condemned MoveOn.org for its (brilliant) Betray-Us ad. John Cornyn (R-TX) sponsored the amendment, which passed...
This may surprise some folks, but I'd like to congratulate Victor Davis Hanson for stumbling upon the perfectly uncontroversial notion that Osama is bug-fuck crazy:The truth is that bin Laden.
From a (generally unfavorable) David Garrow review of Jeffrey Toobin's new Brethrenesque book about the Supreme Court:Toobin devotes two chapters to Bush vs. Gore, the case that decided the 2000.
Garance reminds me of Belle Waring on Fred Thompson: "First of all, are women voters, taken as a whole, really so much like retarded kittens in our motivations? And secondly, doesn’t Fred Thompson pretty much look like a basset hound who’s just taken a really satisfying...
Erik points out that John Hillcoat of The Proposition is set to direct Cormac McCarthy's The Road, with Viggo Mortensen starring as the father character. Like Erik, I have mixed.
Apparently Pitchfork is an almost entirely all-male preserve -- indeed, there are more reviews by guys named "Mark" than by women. [Via Ann and Amanda , the latter of whom.