Via Pandagon, Jonah Goldberg writes:I guarantee you that among PhD candidates in America’s leading universities, for every “conservative” who believes the world was created in six days there are 100 who would think "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" was really...
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Lindsay notes that Saul Bellow, who many smart people consider the greatest American novelist of the past century (and who was born in Lachine, a suburb of my beloved Montreal),.
Congratulations to Seb at Sadly, No! and his partner, who will be having their first child in June. To ask the most obvious question, will the child take his/her father's.
Alright, I guess now that we're Opening Day +2, I'd better offer my predictions for the upcoming season. So:AL East: NY, Bos (WC), Bal, Tor, TBYou won't see these picks anywhere else! Actually, the top of the division is basically a coin flip. The good...
Rox Populi offers some suitably annotated (linked? The discourse of the internets confuses me) Yeats.
Or not...But at least my claim that the Richie Sexson signing was brutal is looking good! Oh, wait...
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Yglesias does a nice job cleaning up the latest vomitous mass left by David Brooks. Sure, feeling-type intel would be great, especially if it were, you know, accurate. The problem.
An entire inning of tonight's Red Sox-Yankees game was wasted with an interview by one idiot of another idiot on the topic of steroids. If they keep this up, I.
It's nice to see major bloggers weighing in on what is surely the most interesting and important topic of political discourse, the Canadian Constitution. Like Julie and Matt, I generally support the idea of a judicial override clause. Matt is correct, however, in pointing out...
TBogg notes that, having used one of the greatest of American protest songs--"The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll"--to defend state torture and support the claim that the President should not.
Chuckle. In a website announcement today, bloggers at the conservative website Powerline claim that they have convincing evidence that House Representative Tom DeLay is in fact a Democratic forgery."The biggest.