Ezra Klein notes Hastert and Frist trying to blame Democrats for the House GOP passing a breathtakingly reactionary immigration bill. Good luck with that.Serious question: How do we account for the puzzling phenomenon that is the House GOP in 2006? Specifically, why is it they vigorously...
In the Vodkapundit thread cited by Belle, I believe we have (4/7 6:39 AM) the definitive example of the wankosphere's vast strategic acumen:With respect to what else....Every play Civilization?I think.
Yglesias:Ever since 9/11 he's been generating words as a fantastical rate the overwhelming plurality of which are based on pretty clear-cut misreadings of Thucydides such that a book about how.
Belle Waring:No, the thing that strikes me as funny is that everyone who supports was with Iran is all about the “mad mullahs” and how they can’t be deterred by normal deterrance because they’re crazed jihadis content to incinerate their own country, plus OMG THE HIDDEN...
Via Henry comes the good news that Jacob Levy is back to at least intermittent blogging, with a definitive take on the Mearsheimer/Walt controversy. Levy notes that "Mearsheimer and Walt.
Walter ShapiroKirn, guest-blogging Chez Sully, has a great post about the use of the phrase "the tipping point" as a contemporary update of the "domino effect," with roughly the same.
The dreadnoughts of the High Seas Fleet had two notable characteristics. First, they were well armored and have excellent survivability characteristics. These qualities extended to German battlecruisers, most of which took brutal damage at Jutland yet survived. On the downside, German dreadnoughts tended to be poorly...
William Saletan's latest piece comparing the "war on smoking" to an upcoming "war on obesity" rests on two clearly erroneous underlying premises, one of them fatal. The somewhat less important.
I come home from a movie and turn on Al-Yankeezera to see what the final score was. Bottom 9th, 1-2 pitch to Torri Hunter, Twins down a run, runners on.
It's nice to see King Kaufman tackle a particularly stupid element of sports labor-bashing, the idea that increasing ticket prices are due to high salaries:A Sox fan named Don Watts made the old connection between salaries and high prices to a reporter from the Fitchburg Sentinel...
I think it's correct to say that it's frequently "a background assumption of the conversation -- so much so that neither participant questions it -- that women have the ability.