I found this article fascinating:Britain and Ireland are so thoroughly divided in their histories that there is no single word to refer to the inhabitants of both islands. Historians teach that they are mostly descended from different peoples: the Irish from the Celts, and the English...
A department at my university recently interviewed a job candidate who spent about 30 minutes at dinner one evening explaining how s/he and his/her partner spend their free time constructing.
Kingdaddy makes an interesting comparison:If you look at Japan then, and the United States now, you might see some familiar faces. A determined faction of aggrieved nationalists, having gambled the.
Commenter (and blogger) Bean raises some interesting points with respect to this post. I'll respond to each point separately:First, while I agree that the current iteration of abortion law is important because it can ensure that poor women have access to abortion, it hasn't done that....
Shorter Victor Davis Hanson:I welcome the triumphant return of comic book standards of right and wrong in this degenerate age, a time when irritating postmodernist spoilsports constantly insist that moral.
Jean Baudrillard did not happen.
Yglesias notes that Maverick McStraightTalk "has the misfortune of being both the most conservative candidate in the race and the one most hated by conservatives." It's quite strange, and is one of the ways in wish the Bush personality cult will hurt the GOP going forward....
Libby convicted on 4 of 5 counts.
Jessie Hill has an interesting three-part series about potentially overturning Roe at PrawfsBlawg. [HT: Volokh Conspiracy.] The long version of what I have to say on the issue can be.
Ayn Rand, high priestess of tedium, speaking to the the graduating class of cadets at West Point, 6 March 1974:Something called "the military-industrial complex"--which is a myth or worse--is being blamed for all of this country's troubles. Bloody college hoodlums scream demands that R.O.T.C. units be...
It's pretty obvious that the Forbes list of best general managers in sports is seriously flawed; the first entry from Major League Baseball is Billy Beane at 26. Either baseball.
One of the most promising elements of the F-35 (Joint Strike Fighter) is the capability that one variant will have for V/STOL, or vertical/short take off and landing. The gap.