when idiots misunderstand the Battle of Guadalcanal.Wretchard, at the Belmont Club, is a moron:Bin Laden understood and accepted that American logistics, technology and science would be superior to his own. What he was less prepared to believe was the possibility that their fighting spirit would be...
Via Roger,screenwriter John Rogers definitively demolishes the second half of the above oft-repeated bit of conservative received wisdom. In addition, why don't we look at Glenn Reynolds' claim about Hollywood's.
As Atrios notes, this Salon article is just awful. If I can highlight one particularly illogical argument:Compelling a reporter to reveal his or her sources to the police turns that.
In my last days as a resident. . .For those not native, Seattle lacks good mass transit. We have no trains. Part of the reason for this lies with the fatal terror of any reasonable taxation.Nevertheless, Seattle approved a monorail a couple years ago. This was...
Alex Rodriguez has decided to play for the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic.Wow.I'm probably missing someone, but this is what the Dominican team looks like to me:DH: David.
Robert Pape has an article on suicide bombing in the new APSR (What? Something interesting in the APSR? The hell you say!). Kevin Drum publishes an extract of an interview.
This list of overrated songs certainly has some problematic entries. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" doesn't belong, not because it's good because as far as I know it has no reputation for quality (and I forgive it because of frequent commenter Leo's rousing karaoke version.) Ditto,...
An excellent post by Lindsay, who skewers the ressentiment of self-described "nice guys" very effectively. It was fascinating to read the comments of various threads and see the durability of.
Matt is, of course, completely right here:Why would that be? Let's say Bush puts up Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown. In response, all 7 Democrats commit to voting no..
It should come as news to none of our readers that the Bush administration consistently demonstrates exceedingly poor policy judgment to complement their mendacity and skewed priorities on a myriad of policy issues. As such, this news report on the priorities of administration drug policy should...
Nathan Newman draws the right lesson from Toyota deciding to locate a new plant in Canada rather than the Republican utopias of Alabama and Mississippi:Partly this is due to the.
Roxanne notes that the Cleveland Plain Dealer is declining to publish a story based on leaked documents. As iocaste points out, however, the paper is clearly mistaken on the law,.