Budding Sinologist has some brief thoughts on what military exercises demonstrate about the competence of the People's Liberation Army and the ROC military.
Good to see that Target has finally fired a pharmacist who wishes to interpose her beliefs between drugs she is professionally bound to dispense and the health of her customers..
Funky.
My first reaction to reading the Slate article on art-houses that Rob discusses below was to be both amused and contemptuous of this particular manifestation of contraianism-through-not-very-credible-random-anecdotes (has anyone ever seen routine laughing at non-subtitled bits?), but to realize that at least it was more harmless...
Hood was the name ship of what was supposed to be a class of four battlecruisers ordered near the close of World War I. Shortly before Hood was laid down,.
The Alito filibuster fight is on. Of particular interest to our Washington state readers: according to Jane, "Maria Cantwell is reportedly quite wobbly, and might be susceptible to pressure. If.
Wow. Twenty years since the Challenger explosion; I recall that we were supposed to watch the liftoff on TV at school, but were delayed for some reason. I guess that saved the teachers the trouble of dealing with a few hundred traumatized elementary school students. That...
Does this sound even vaguely similar to any experience you've had in an art house movie theater? Maybe I attend the wrong ones...
I would like to say something about the PA elections. Except that what I would say pretty much boils down to 1)the election of an eliminationist anti-Semitic terrorist organization is.
This is an interesting (if dated) little article on the difference that a century makes in naval architecture. In spite of the profound changes that have occured, I am nonetheless inclined to think that USS Mississippi shares much more in common with the DD(X) than it...
Friday Cat Blogging... Panda
I've seen more than one blogger compare reactionary Senate hopeful Bob Casey Jr. to Joe "Easiest Lay On The White House Lawn" Lieberman. As it turns out, this is unfair...to.