On the Clinton war counterfactual, I think it's worth distinguishing between a weaker and a stronger version:Did Clinton see desposing a secular dictatorship that posed no significant threat to the United States and (in by far the most likely outcome) replacing it with an Islamist quasi-state...
I've always maintained that Eli Manning was going to be a great quarterback and trading up for him was pure genius...Seriously, that was a remarkable run, and while Manning will.
The Romanovs seem to have emerged, along with a number of other important Russian families, from a minor 14th century noble named Andrei Kobyla. The Romanov branch of this large.
I'm hoping for a good game, but let's be frank. In terms of matchup this one most closely resembles the Bears/Patriots blowout -- historically great team against unusually weak Super Bowl team. There's probably a greater chance of an upset because you can move the ball...
Granting that it's somewhat better than the first one, can someone explain to me how Lee Siegel's sure to be widely unread pensees about how it's worse than the gulag.
As of Friday, I am Living the American Dream of home and/or boat ownership, as I closed on a co-op in the building that (appropriately enough) used to house the.
Another day, another bad headline, this one from the UK Guardian (and repeated in many other papers). On the unspeakably horrible bombing in Baghdad today:"Female Suicide Bombers kill 72 people at Baghdad Markets"So, yes. The people in the market with bombs strapped to them were female....
The High Priestess of Tedium, among other literary greats, as channeled by McSweeney's:Belichick squared his broad shoulders as he stared Coughlin in the eye. The smaller man cowed and threw.
We at LGM issue heartfelt congratulations to President Sarkozy and Ms. Bruni!The French are so very different from us.
Not that this is news, but the McCain is a mortal lock. Evidently, I got this completely wrong. What I missed was that the logic I used to defend Romney (he would have little chance running against a serious plain vanilla Southern conservative but wasn't facing...
Speaking of bean's alma mater, some Yale students engage in a silent protest against advocate of torture and arbitrary executive power and Bush administration idea of a good federal judge.
Captain Ed:Has Ann Coulter Finally Jumped the Shark?Um. Heh. Uh... I guess I just don't understand the question.