I'm not the sort of man who avoids fried food. Nevertheless, I must admit to being really, really disturbed by Burger King's Chicken Fries. I haven't tried this abomination, but I'm forced to wonder if we really need another fried chicken delivery system.
Alert reader Cathy points us to this report on the use of bioweapons in World War II:Ken Alibek, a former top Soviet bioweapons scientist, contends that an outbreak of tularemia.
That was impressive.And I can't agree with Tbogg; walking Pujols isn't a solution. Sanders is more likely to get a single than Pujols is to hit it 1200', or however.
You know, somebody should write a dissertation about cooperative training between military organizations. In fact, somebody should pay some enterprising young scholar to write a book about it...Matthew Yglesias, commenting on this post by Morton Halperin, writes:That seems about right. The most highly skilled military trainers...
I think that Turkey should be part of the EU. My reasons? Asia Minor has been a critical part of the European world since ancient times, and Islamic Turkey since.
I haven't said much about the Times article about Miller--like you, I get my news from firedoglake and other fine sources--but I do want to highlight this gem from Greg.
It is rare indeed that a favorite blogger will use the phrase "The best commentary I've yet seen comes from Mickey Kaus." But that's nothing; via Edroso, I present my first and last installment of "Hugh Hewitt is making sense":When Bush said "like Scalia or Thomas"...
I was planning to start the week discussing this baffling post by Kos, but fortunately The Editors save me the trouble:I agree that this is a great proposition, and I.
I think Kevin Drum's post about shield laws is generally sensible--particularly the point that any such laws should protect activities, not professional identities--but I think there's one point that's worth.
The commissioning of Dreadnought set the navies of the world to zero, or close enough. The reasons for this remain unclear. Dreadnought represented no great technical revolution; she was simply larger, faster, and more heavily armed than any predecessor. The capacity to build a dreadnought type...
I love Amanda. Nevertheless, I'm sad to see Jesse go. He's been there as long as I've been blogging.Fare thee well.
That was one hell of a call.