Huh. I never had this problem:When I was a younger lad man, there was no one around to tell me that Tom Friedman was an utter buffoon. I was in Seattle in 1999, and I remember reading Friedman on the demonstrations. He was careful to interpret...
HMS Sheffield was the first of the Royal Navy's Type 42 Destroyer, a class designed to supply fleet air defense. Theoretically, the Type 42 destroyers were supposed to protect a.
Shorter Brother-of-Treason-in-Defense-of-Slavery Yankee: "Though not quite as heterosexual as Ace O. Spades, I'm also heterosexual. To prove it, I will now make several jokes about pork."I hate to concede this,.
New Mexico sure looks different than Kentucky:It rained or threatened to rain for ten consecutive days, which I'm told is unusual. In any case, I'm happy to be back, although the traffic bump that accompanied my vacation has enhanced my sense of personal irrelevance. Thanks to...
I understand that anything less than fulsome praise for the artistic stylings of untalented multi-millionaires will crush the Fragile Spirits of today's Sensitive Teenagers (and, alas, I do think that.
. . . it's been rumored that Douglas Feith is teh fucking stupid. You think?"[Feith] was sitting there munching a sandwich while he was talking to me," Lang recalled, "which.
Finally, Yglesias's review of the new apologia from Bob "Losing Pitcher" Shrum is out. Its subtitle ("Memoirs of the man who thrice saved us from a Democratic presidency") suggests a kinship with Jon Chait's classic Nader demolition "The Man Who Gave Us Bush," and if there's...
Tom. Tom was the feline mascot and (we presume) rat hunter aboard the USS Maine, which exploded in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, on 15 February 1898. Along with more.
Photo credit: state.gov.What do you know about Bill Richardson, who announced earlier this week that he's running for President? According to google, I've never written the name "Richardson" on my.
Damn interesting:As word of the birth-control wonder-herb spread through ancient Europe, Africa, and Asia, a market for the versatile fennel developed rapidly. The seeds became widely used among the world's wealthier nations, including the citizens of ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, and India. By some accounts the...
It's been 24 hours since Bush said this, regarding the Iraqi government:"We are there at the invitation of the Iraqi government. This is a sovereign nation. Twelve million people went.
More reasoned discourse from America's profoundly serious and morally superior pro-life movement, this time from National Abstinence Clearinghouse Sweepstakes spokesperson Leslee Unruh. You will not be surprised to learn that.