Mickey:The Plano Con, Coda: Remember Plano, Texas, the Mid-American city where Brokeback Mountain's ticket sales so impressed Frank Rich and others with the film's hard-core red-state appeal? When Wal-Mart decided to open a new experimental "upscale" store, featuring a sushi bar, an espresso bar, $500 bottles...
I see Patterico, in an extremely rare move, has actually tried to defend the transparently indefensible GOP abortion platform. Alas, it is a complete failure, as generally tends to happen.
Just a reminder that voting for the Koufax awards ends tonight. If you're so inclined, you can vote for L, G & M for best series, but make sure to.
France's early efforts at battleship construction suffered from slow building, full slips, and a concentration on the more pressing issues of World War I. Accordingly, early French battleships were not competitive with their foreign contemporaries. The Washington Naval Treaty allowed France to build 70000 tons worth...
(Admittedly Not Much) Shorter Glenn Reynolds: You illegal immigrants can keep your phony-baloney marching. We'll take your labor, but when you make unreasonable demands on the polity like "not having.
Exciting game, but arrrrrrgh. It's been a bad three months: two Seattle teams in crucial games, both outplayed their opposition, but lost based on key plays by the opposition, bad.
Norbiz: "Well, at least he went down swinging like the craven, blame-shifting, pre-programmed, privilege-laden reactionary douchebag we know and love."As Marshall says (as well as Fontana Labs), one's initial impulse is pity; fifteenth-rate plagiarist hacks have families too, etc. But then you remember that he not...
Well, now that I have an I-Pod I guess I have enough I-Tunes to do one of these things. Since my uploading of CDs has tended to old favorites, this.
Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson
Erick at selfparody.org: "And now those opposed to Ben have googled prior writings that on the surface appear suspicious, but only because permissions obtained and judgments made offline were not reflected online by an out dated and out of business campus newspaper. But that's all the...
A terrific post by hilzoy, explaining why serial plagiarism is far from a trivial issue--make sure to read the comments too. And as Greg Saunders points out, there's something particularly.
I love to use film as a teaching tool, and not just because it buys me a day of no lectures. Movies help to make clear certain concepts in a.