Belated Friday Cat Blogging... Mamacat
Big Tent Dem questions Paul Krugman's analysis of the election in FL-13, which (for whatever reason) clearly thwarted the will of the voters. I should say, first of all, that.
I note that the upcoming gig (Thursday, Bowery Poetry Club) of friend of (and frequent commenter at) L, G & M Darcy James Argue has been touted in the august.
Iain Ballantyne notes a discussion of Britain's "Finest Hour" regarding the relative value of the contribution of the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force to Britain's survival in 1940 and 1941. Ballantyne:Certainly the German fleet was not up to the job of fighting off half...
I'm off to bucolic New England for Thanksgiving, so happy holidays to all L, G & M readers. While I'm gone, enjoy this amusing cartoon about the most irritating rhetorical.
Two good posts at Broadsheet on this Thanksgiving eve. First--and truly reason to be thankful--is that walking evidence for the sometimes-forgotten fact that terrible, shallow ideas expressed in good prose.
I'm going to be eating one of these tomorrow. It's unlikely that I'll survive, so I just wanted to wish everyone well as I stand at precipice of doom. As for my few worldly possessions, I have a lot of reading material and assorted crap in...
I think because I'm listed first, I often get emails meant for other bloggers here at LGM. Today, I'd like to share with you one of those emails:I read your.
Scott Johnson -- whose sense of shame is inversely proportionate to his lack of historical knowledge -- invokes the term "massive resistance" in a post from yesterday, which reprints a.
If you love the VD Hanson-bashing genre (and obviously we do), be sure to check out Matt's contribution. A sample:Rather than view this appreciation, imitation, and innovation as a metaphor for the cultural exchange which has characterized the relationship between Islamic and Christian civilizations just as...
Wondering how Eric Keroack--the crank Bush as appointed to be in charge of family planning funding--could believe a bunch of non-scientific gibberish (which, to be fair, he expressed--appropriately enough--in cartoon.
Ooh, there's a novel out about the construction of Dreadnought. John J. McKeon:When a nation has a big technological lead over its potential military rivals, how long can that lead.