I discussed this in comments below, but because the fallacies are so common, it deserves a post of its own. The "Appeasement" argument generally relies on false parallels, indefensible declarations, and an ignorance of historical fact. First, the false parallel:I'd argue that there is a fraction...
Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson and Starbuck
Not that I particularly care, but what are the standard explanations for the failure of the United States to win international basketball competitions? That the US, in spite of having.
Shorter wingnuts: the failure of the national media to immediately label the crazed actions of someone with severe mental problems enraged by a fight with his mother an act or terrorism with no evidence other than the perpetrator's ethnicity doesn't prove that we're drooling racists--it proves...
Yglesias reminds us that reality TV isn't just evil; it's Evil. Oddly, the last 10-15 years has seen some of the most complex and interesting television in the history of.
Shorter Ross Douthat: Frat boys would have never engaged in lewd, vulgar behavior or the sexual exploitation of women if it wasn't for those meddling feminists and Milton scholars who.
Glenn Greenwald has a good post about Richard Posner's interview with fellow lapsed libertarian Glenn Reynolds and Helen Smith. I find Posner's arguments troubling in many respects, although I would focus on slightly different aspects than Greenwald does. In fairness to Posner, he cannot be accused...
Fascinating.
I'm sitting here watching Die Another Day on Spike, and thinking to myself that Brosnan-era Bond really failed to live up to its promise. Of the four films one is.
Les Nesman was a prophet. Admittedly, the post-9/11 version would involve the Patton side running over the Murrow side with a steamroller, but you can't predict everything!With a pointless Dylan list imminent, I should also note that you can knock Infidels all you like, but in...
Jill points us to this Linda Greenhouse article about the decline in female clerks at the Supreme Court. While I concede Eugene Volokh's point that you can't read too much.
Big Number of Blogs Matt gets it exactly right:This, I think we can assume, is the fall campaign. The idea is to psyche the Democrats out. To make them think.