I don't have time to respond to all the comments in this thread, but a couple of quick points:I have learned by now that it is hopeless to expect anyone in the "aesthetic issues are moral issues" camp to ever address this point, but nonetheless I...
I get some comments now and again on Russia posts accusing me of being alarmist. I don't think that's true; rather, I think that the Russian defense establishment has undertaken.
Light posting will continue for another couple days, as I am in Chicago to give a talk at the Northwestern Law School tomorrow. I'm staying at a lovely hotel in.
Bill Donohue -- yes, that Bill Donohue -- is up to his old antics again. This time, he's got Kathy Griffin in his sights. The "Life on the D-List" star won an Emmy last week, and in her thank you/acceptance speech, had this to say:“Can you...
Six years ago today, four airplanes -- hijacked by a small army of freedom-hating suiciders, lesbians, civil libertarians, Islamofascists (and their appeasers), stem-cell researchers, Francophiles, historical revisionists and unelected judges.
You may remember the JAMA study which showed that the range of weight generally defined as "overweight" (as opposed to normal, underweight, or obese) was actually associated with the best.
This fall, for the third year in a row, New York's Urban Justice Center is hosting the Vendy Awards, a fundraiser cum tribute for their street vendor project, which fights for and protects the rights of NYC's 10,000 street vendors. Street vendors are an integral part...
Apparently, among the many other bad side effects, the massive amount of corn being grown is pushing up the price of other commodities. For example, "Heineken, the brewery giant, said.
Many thanks to our regular reader Howard for favoring me with some hot jazz selections from my wish list: namely, Abbey Sings Abbey and Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian..
I haven't seen this article cited elsewhere, but Jane Hamsher points to the inspiration for MoveOn's "Betray Us" headline, about which many an indignant fist has been shaken today.After being hailed as King David, the potential saviour of Iraq, the US commander General David Petraeus is...
Either I missed my dear Liptak last week, or he was off for Labor Day. Either way, he's back in action today, with a column about the FISA court ,.
If you've ever read the half-baked, foul-mouthed philistinism otherwise known as "My Posts" and wondered by what satanic collusion I managed to land a job outside the temp industry, now.