The hydrogen bomb is fifty-three years old today. Let's hope that its next fifty-three years are as quiet as its last.
Very nice post and discussion thread at Crooked Timber regarding the Lancet 100000 deaths in Iraq estimate. Long story short, I may have been premature in critiquing the study. I suppose.
Via Brad Delong, Daniel Benjamin makes a good case that the failure to kill Zarqawi before the invasion is the single most indefensible decision made by this administration. This doesn't mean that.
Still, the staggering idiocy of the following commentary is awe-inspiring. First, Roger Simon: That's why I think energizing the base is so important. Any little unexpected thing -- we thought the October surprise might be the capture or killing of Osama bin Laden. This tape is better...
Hands down, beyond dispute, this is the worst Kaus ever. Halloween really brings them out. . . Was bin Laden attempting state-by-state blackmail? Safire misses the key aspect of bin Laden's.
Here's something a few old friends of mine threw together. Enjoy.
And now for something completely different. . . I've undergone a bizarre intellectual journey over the past couple of years. Talk to me in 2001, and you would find a staunch Francophobe, always willing to think the worst of the French, even when they clearly didn't...
Max Sawicky offers a good timeline of the guest hacks at Instapundit trying to explain away Al QaQaa. It's a really remarkable sequence of intellectual dishonesty. Uncritically repeat assertions from.
My prediction can wait no longer. Kerry 51 Bush 47.5 (various irrelavents) 1.5 Kerry: 304 (Gore 2000 +Florida, Ohio, NH, -Iowa) Bush: 234 Turnout: 59% (Local predictions) Monorail recall fails.
This Slate article is so appalling it's hard to know what possibly could have been going through the minds of the editors who allowed it to be published. Even for a publication that gives a fulltime blog to a guy obsessed with irrelevant trivia about (Democratic)...
Since a commenter bringing it up gives me the excuse... I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem.
Lawyers, Guns and Money was born on May 31, 2004. We've been in existence for 153 days. In that time, Blogger tells me that my posts total 66506 words. My.