Dead from leukemia, age 57. A fine performer, from Godfather II to Spinal Tap to Donnie Brasco.
This is the fourth of an eight part review series of the Patterson Summer Reading List.1. Colossus, Niall Ferguson2. Illicit, Moises Naim3. The End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs4. The World.
I would like to think that George Allen's recent bout of racist taunting (although, in fairness, who could have predicted that someone who worshipped the Confederate flag while growing up.
Shorter Ace of Spades: The only way to preserve liberal democracy is through state-sponsored racism and collective guilt. (Via alicublog.)
Atrios cherry-picked the best stuff, but George Will's conclusion (sniping at the "blogosphere" aside) seems worth quoting as well: The official is correct that it is wrong "to think that.
Good WaPo article on Hezbollah guerilla capabilities. MacGyver has also been on the case, asking the right questions about Hezbollah's competence. There are three questions that I find of particular.
Heh. Maybe one of the reasons that the administration doesn't like going to the UN is that they regularly get schooled by the French...First, during the first UN Resolution that was cobbled together, the French signed on to the U.S. language. While that first resolution favored...
A warm, hearty thanks to the fine soul who dropped $50 in the tip jar. We'll give it a good home.
With respect to nutritionally unsound university dining, I note that my dorm cafeteria--in which everyone had to choose between two mass-cooked meals at a central dining hall rather than choosing.
I was happy to see Darcy's tribute to Randy Newman. I can't agree, however, that Randy Newman (Creates Something New Under the Sun) is a "disaster." Sure, its notably inferior to the three remarkable albums that followed it, but it has some of his finest songs...
Lexington seems to be filling up with incoming freshmen. Many of these freshmen (as well as assorted upper classmen) will soon be infesting the dorms, and, of course, eating dorm.
Particularly if you remember how numerous wingnuts slandered her as an Islamofascist lackey (because, after all, statements you make at the point of a gun after months of captivity can.