You know what's worse than giving op-ed space to people who write empty-headed fluff about things vaguely related to politics? Giving op-ed space to people who explain how they write empty-headed fluff about things vaguely related to politics in other media:Because I had the longtime habit,...
All with a passing interest in political theory ought to read Russell Arben Fox's summary statement on communitarianism, available here. Most communitarianism is annoying (hardly a unique feature of communitarianism),.
Here's a disease vector that Michael Crichton won't be writing about anytime soon.Oysterman Jim Aguiar had never had to deal with the bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus in his 25 years working.
And that little boy nobody liked grew up to be...the nation's chief Inquistor and Underwear Drawer Inspector!I'm reading Jan Crawford Greenburg's new book about the Supreme Court, which is pretty good. One thing it emphasizes is how narrow the margin for Roe (as well as other...
(Via Pandagon) We'll be hearing more about this story, I hope, in the coming months as the civil case goes to trial. Three years ago in Cass County, Texas, a.
Smiling, apparently, conveys low social status. Who knew?
David at Danger Room has a couple very good posts on the possible origins of the EFPs being found in Iraq. He points out, as Andrew Cockburn noted last week, that the construction of these devices is easily within the means of any Iraqi insurgent with...
Ben beat me to this, but indeed Sunday's Bobo was remarkably devoid of evidence and irrelevant even by the standards of his sociological thumbsuckers. Not only am I, shall we.
Had an aggressive glioblastoma not gobbled his brain in 1991, the late Republican political strategist Lee Atwater would have turned 56 today. One of the most vile political figures in.
When it came out, I assumed that The Departed was too good and too alive to be competitive for Best Picture; I'm happy to be wrong, and it's good that the greatest living American director got his award. I still can't quite believe that this happened...
Is it my imagination, or is this thing running long?...Update by SL: I've mostly had it on the background while writing--which is easy given that they're giving out roughly one.
Here's Brad Neely's catchy follow-up to the acclaimed George Washington music video . . . .