I'm happy that John posted the full context of Rick Santorum's reprehensible attempt to drag Bob Casey's dead father into their Press the Meat debate today:SANTORUM: He says the science is clear and it is clear. In fact, it is an abortifacient in certain circumstances....
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Mark Steyn:Do you want to hear what a person sounds like when they really are -- to use Steyn's words -- "weak, that there's nothing -- no core, no bedrock.
An important point by Yglesias that's not made often enough:Rumsfeld has been a poor Secretary of Defense. Overwhelmingly, however, this poorness has tended to manifest itself in Rumsfeld advocating horribly.
At lunch at the aforementioned Kingdom of Vegetarians yesterday, the conversation turned to the question of when a child's wish to convert to vegetarianism for ethical reasons should be indulged by his or her parents (the primary conversants were not vegetarians and were facing this...
A Philly restaurant recommendation: Kingdom of Vegetarians. Cheap, delicious vegan-kosher Chinese food. The $10 a head dim sum lunch was the most expensive thing on the menu but it's worth.
Good Christ. What's next? No doubling down after 10pm on Tuesdays? I'm sure Iran is behind this, somehow...
My parents are coming to town this week, so I was asking a couple people about potential shows to see. One theater maven correspondent had this to say about The Lieutenant Of Inishmore (which apparently is closing this weekend in any case): "Imagine Quentin Tarantino,...
September returns, and with it God's most noble endeavour, Oregon Duck football. I'm going to tend toward the conservative this year and predict a 9-3 record; they'll lose two of.
In the midst of a revealing summary of the Siegel episode (and I'm inclined to agree with Steve; Siegel was on a mission to destroy, and Ezra was quite reserved.
Halfway through what's been a good conference for me this time. Sadly, while my intellectual interests are quite broad, I find I have a better conference experience when I limit myself to political theory panels and nothing but. So far that's worked out well.It's cold,...
Just in case they vanish from the Google cache (also here), it's really worth preserving some of the best of the comments of his sock puppet for posterity:You have quite.
In comments, Ryan from Pigs and Battleships (best blog name ever) reports that Siegel is gone.I have to believe that the rest of the TNR crew is breathing a sigh.