Here's a question for you academics out there: If the president of your university or college sent you a personal e-mail asking some question or offering some prize, what are the chances you'd delete the message without reading it? Is it just my institution, or do...
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck
Surely, as Scott and many others pointed out yesterday, it would be difficult to match wits with the "moral clarity" of Jonah Goldberg on the question of dictatorships and social.
Ted Barlow emails to remind me that Christopher Hitchens has also constantly made Goldbergesque "Meaningless Horrible Baseline" arguments since he became an apologist for the Iraq war. A Frayster named Shrinking Shrieking Violet says all that needs to be said:It's always fascinating to observe the logical...
Shorter Daniel Henninger: We're stuck with awful television like The Sopranos and Deadwood because of that damned Supreme Court and its insistence that upholding "generally accepted standards of conduct" isn't.
Nitpicker has the roundup. Next week's LA Times column will defend J-Pod by pointing out that while in retrospect Cinderella Man was really more of a crappy Hallmark movie-of-the-week melodrama.
The idea of a screen version of Confederacy of Dunces produces mixed emotions. Although I was initially very skeptical of the casting of Will Ferrell, I've come around a bit on that; Ferrell is a genuinely talented guy, and I suspect that he'll be able to...
Dear Santa Claus:This year, could you send all the warbloggers to Iraq?Thank you for your kind consideration.love,dave
Via Drum, I see that Jonah Goldberg is arguing that you can't make an omelet without throwing a few people out of planes, and that the baseline for measuring the.
At Democracy, Kevin Mattson revives the "decline of the public intellectuals" narrative to castigate historians for not enlightening the public sphere as they supposedly did during the vibrant post-war era, when Richard Hofstadter, C. Vann Woodward, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and other young historians "engaged in the...
Via Redbeard, I see that forth-rate novelist, global warming denialist, xenophobe, and Bush Administration scientific consultant Michael Crichton inserted a child rapist named after the New Republic's Michael Crowley (who.
"I was living in Madison, WI, which was not at the time a federal offense. Despite that, the Bush administration held me without charges and tortured me for three years..