A couple of our commenters made this point well, too, but this post very effectively expresses my puzzlement over various male commenters who seemed to think that having a foot tapped and hand rubbed on the side of a bathroom stall to signal sexual desire is...
And the inevitably failed price controls in Zimbabwe are succeeded by...price controls. I'm not sure it's possible for the situation to get more depressing, but it's an incredible catastrophe getting.
Congratulations to blog pioneer, friend of LGM, and edit makin' person Patrick Nielsen Hayden for winning the Best Editor in the Known Universe award!
A quick blog housekeeping note: I will be traveling for the rest of this holiday weekend to go to a wedding across the country. I think I might actually leave my computer at home (gasp!). The thought of dealing with the computer, a ziploc bag full...
John Hawkins at Townhall, in one of recent memory's most extraordinarily ill-disguised racist tirades:Two years after Katrina, everywhere you turn, there are people carping, whining, and kvetching. Just why hasn't.
There was a high powered panel this morning at APSA on strategic withdrawal from Iraq. It included James Wirtz of the Naval War College, John Mearsheimer, Juan Cole, and Stephen.
We have a sighting of that increasingly rare beast, the principled, internally consistent pro-lifer! In response to an Anna Quindlen column that produced the usual outpouring of comically transparent illogic and evasion from anti-choicers, Matt Abbott is willing to actually apply his principles with some measure...
Kimblerley A. Strassel argues that the majority of women who vote Democratic are out there for the Republican plucking. What, might you ask, is the strategy? Well, apparently women no.
According to CNN, Idaho Senator may be stepping down today. It's obvious that Craig - like so many others in the scandal-ridden GOP - is a complete and utter hypocrite..
Jeff Goldstein really should be performing with a brick wall in the background:Still, I think there are certain elements of an actual conspiracy here that shouldn’t be overlooked -- most specifically, a kind of institutional willingness to repeat each other’s debunked stories in an effort to...
There's something I thought I'd never say. Good news today on the criminal justice front out of Texas. Kenneth Foster came within hours of execution today for the 1996 shooting.
This post from Michael Asher at DailyTech has already brought predictable yodels from climate change skeptics. From what I can gather, Asher supplies -- once again -- ample evidence that.