Today, thanks to Kim Jong Il, I got to be on the TV. I talked about North Korea on the 12:30pm (27 Newsfirst), and on the 5:30pm (36 Action News). Each station interviewed me for about two minutes, asking similar but not identical questions. The situation...
I'm not much for metaphysics, but if evil exists in this world, it has been temporarily vanquished by the Detroit Tigers. Like any good high, the end of the Yankees'.
First off, thanks to Scott and Rob for and asking me to join up with LGM -- an offer that very nearly salves my staggering disappointment over finishing second in.
Like Rob, starting Tuesday I will be contributing to TAPPED. I will still be doing a fair amount of posting here--for some reason, the Prospect is not fully convinced about the value of lengthy posts about baseball, pretentious French movies, the silliness of Ann Althouse, etc....
The most salient thing about the story that got some attention last month about servers who were fired after they refused to go along with a regimen in which women.
I suppose I should make some substantive comment...I don't think that the North Korean test is significant in military terms. We knew (or suspected so strongly that we had to.
I have a piece at TAPPED on Mark Graber's new book up (it's sort of a prequel to this post, which I will have a follow-up on later.) The biggest point I wanted to make was to address a common criticism when I've presented my work...
An excellent article in the NYT today--apparently the first of a series--about the proliferation of special legal exemptions for religious organizations. First of all, there are some hilarious examples of.
It looks as if the test has been conducted. As far as I can tell, the world hasn't ended. North Korea has one fewer nuke than it had yesterday.
Be sure to read the tale of Luis Posada Carriles, the one terrorist suspect that the Bush administration refuses to send to Cuba. The reason? Posada murdered 73 Cubans by blowing them up with a toothpaste tube full of plastic explosives, and has close and long...
This mixed review of the weakly rated but for the most part critically revered Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip reminds me why I won't be watching it:Still, given that.
A few wrap-up notes on a gratifying outcome I, at least, didn't foresee: I don't actually agree with Rob about Torre's apparently imminent firing. I'll argue about this again if/when.