In the midst of explaining how it's more important to stay in Iraq than it was to stay in Vietnam, William Stuntz writes:But on any plausible scale of strategic value, Iraq today easily beats Vietnam in the late 1960s or Korea in the early 1950s. America...
What a depressing ending for Deadwood, not simply in the substance (which, in the last two episodes, was crushing) but also in the sheer incompleteness of the project. Knowing that.
In extremely tepid defense of Joe Biden, I don't think he was BOASTING that Delaware was once a slave state; rather, he was pointing out a basic fact about one.
Although I don't fully agree, I think ogged has a point about acting and The Wire. It's a really, really, outstanding show, and getting better too. But part of me does wish that Simon had been able to do Homicide on HBO. Particularly in the first...
My reaction to the decision to make Plan B available over-the-counter to women over the age of 18 was positive. And, in a sense, it still is; the current policy.
Great post by Brad Plumer on the subject of the 1996 welfare reform bill. The key point is that most assertions that welfare reform has "worked" reference nothing more than.
Shorter Verbatim Mark Steyn: "Ann Coulter’s new book Godless: The Church of Liberalism is a rollicking read very tightly reasoned and hard to argue with...Lest you doubt the left’s pieties are now a religion, try this experiment: go up to an environmental activist and say “Hey,...
It looks as if there's been a plane crash in Lexington.... Fox News, unhelpfully, was speculating as to whether terrorism was the cause.
In the wake of Snakes on a Plane, Dana Stevens at Slate requested additional, literal minded film titles. The best:The Creature Waits in the StructureThat's Not Sangria!Kittens for BreakfastWoody Allen.
The Washington Naval Treaty dealt the Royal Navy a raw deal. The RN posssesed 32 dreadnoughts and 9 battlecruisers, compared to the 22 dreadnoughts of the USN and the 8 dreadnoughts and 4 battlecruisers of the IJN. Moreover, the battleships and battlecruisers on the Royal Navy...
This gets it right.
Battlestar Galactica has won Salon's prestigious "Buffy" award for television's most underappreciated show. Previous winners include The Wire and Veronica Mars. This bit is particularly nice:Ten reasons not to watch.