Anybody watch Fox Report with Shepard Smith? Steve Harrigan is apparently doing a three part report on how Venezuela is a communist tyranny itching to make trouble for the United States. I'm powerfully interested in the Fox News take on Hugo Chavez and the Venezuela situation, but...
Last Saturday night, I made an inebriated decision to comment on this Tom Wolfe column. Herodotus tells us that the ancient Persians reconsidered every drunken decision while sober, and every sober.
Noting the glowing response to Ward Churchill, Erik at Alterdestiny has given up any pretense of loyalty to America, apple pie, and Western civilization. Check out his new syllabus. My favorites:.
If you have a spare moment, pause and give thanks to the Red Army. The Battle of Stalingrad ended sixty-two years ago today.
The Koufax Award nominees for funniest post, always a treasure trove, are up. How they winnowed the Fafblog! and Poor Man posts down to only a few, I have no idea..
I have been meaning to comment for a while on this very strange Slate article. Ezra raises the most salient objection: it's absolutely crazy to think that the Republicans, in.
The story that German welfare officials were intended to compel women to accept jobs in brothels at the risk of having their welfare payments discontinued has been discredited. (It is pretty amusing to see conservative bloggers imply that this is some sort of devastating critique of...
The Bonassus, Daniel Geffen, actually turns to the research.... a) Adjust your policies to be more like the other (more successful) party's? b) Stick to your guns and maintain the same.
Classic Tomorrow.
One of the difficulties any rational person has with Gregg Easterbrook's review of Jared Diamond is that he is simply speaking a different, wingnuttier dialect of the English language. Once you understand the idiosyncratic definitions of certain key terms, things become much clearer. You'll also find...
I know it's difficult to believe, but the Eatserhackery referenced below is conceivably only the second-stupidest thing featured in today's New York Times.
Rob and Scott have been doing just fine without me during my unplanned blogging sabbatical, to the extent that the vast majority of you probably hadn't noticed. At any rate,.