Budding Sinologist at MeiZhongTai points us to this article about the maintenance record of the PLAN, or People's Liberation Army Navy. Naval maintenance may not seem like an exciting topic, but it's interesting in two ways. First, the actual maintenance of naval equipment, like most...
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Frequent commenter MHS requested that we write a bit about the WBC, and since that was my intention anyway...It would be wrong to say that I'm wildly enthusiastic about the.
Jeff Goldstein should probably go back to doing what he does well. I'm not sure what that is, really, but it can't be blogging about national security. Regarding a report.
It was fun to watch him play.1783 games.318/.370/.477207 home runs2 World Series rings (1987, 1991).296 lifetime EQAUPDATE: Joe Sheehan has a good column on Kirby.
The Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision written by Chief Justice Roberts, upheld the Solomon Amendment, thus forcing universities to permit the military to recruit on campus even if the.
Via Magnus at Capital Cadre, this offering at The Officer's Club is about the clearest distillation of an American fascism that I've ever seen. A selection:The problem with our world.
Yet another argument about abortion by William Saletan. Whether it deserves more time than Elton gave it is I suppose debatable, but I can't resist. A lot of his points and rhetorical feints are familiar, so I'll dispense with them quickly, and get to the...
Well, Dave Kehr called it. And it makes sense--granting that Brokeback is better described as "very, very good" than "great," it was just too good to win Best Picture in.
Picture: BrokebackDirector: LeeActor: HoffmanActress: WitherspoonSupporting Actor: GyllenhallSupporting Actress: WeiszOriginal Screenplay: Good Night and Good LuckAdapted Screenplay: Brokeback MountainLet this serve as an open Oscar thread.
I swear that this post is currently the lead story at Train Wreck Media (TM) (Prof. Glenn Reynolds, co-founder):Someone else (and I regret forgetting who) has mentioned the humorous fact that Glenn Reynold's [has he dropped the "s" from his name as being unfashionable, like...
I noted last year that Harper's--within living memory an outstanding publication--has become worthless. Discouraging people from taking HIV treatments based on crackpottery straight from the pages of Spin magazine really.
This will be of mild-to-no-interest to most readers, but the Patterson School just finished its 2006 Spring Simulation. A good time was had by all. The theme this year was.