I say just plain odd.If you don't read Registan.net, you should... despite the fact that Nathan joined 'incompetent media.'
My colleague Dan Byman explains why Zarqawi's death probably won't make things better, and may even make them worse (via Robin Varghese of 3 Quarks Daily):Still, the history of killing.
Yet another example. I'm sure that the intensive campaign to de-link NRO will start immediately! (Or, at least, as soon as they've started one for Jeff Goldstein.) Admittedly, there is.
An interesting post to pull out of Buridan's Ass on the definition of oppression. Buridan argues that being an oppressed group requires (a) being a group and (b) being oppressed and neither of these notions is well-defined, indeed, both are self-defined (or claimed by some to...
Last year, I discussed the risibly spurious civil rights arguments Target was using as a pretext to not fire pharmacists who wanted to interpose their atavistic sexual morality between women.
Within the span of five months in 2004-2005 remakes of two "classic" science-fiction series entered their regular seasons. The first regular episode of the "re-envisioned" Battlestar Galactica aired in October.
The recent story about how not having access to Plan B is likely to lead to more abortions reminds me about this telling statistic, which appeared in the last Harper's index:Percentage of U.S. abortions in 1973 and 2002, respectively, that took place in the first trimester:...
Most of the evidence suggests grounds for cautious optimism about the prospects for some sort of deal with Iran. Already, some (admittedly obscure) right-wing bloggers are crying foul over the.
In his writings on society and education in first decades of the 20th century, Hans Reichenbach argued that structural change would most likely have to be led by the emerging.
Linda Hirshman, guest-blogging at TAPPED, has an interesting follow-up post about the debunked Newsweek scare story on marriage. One downside of the fact that most of the women got married is that many of them had to give up their careers. In light of this, Hirshman...
Matt's argument here can be engaged with on a couple levels. Certainly, there's no question--even granting that it generally takes at least 2 viewings to sort these things out--that this.
I say we follow the lead of the Senate GOP leaders. Their move to bring up gay marriage now is fantastic. Ok, it's so transparently political that's it absurd, but.