"I heartily endorse this event or product."We've had to turn down a couple BlogAds recently--the most recent a particularly egregious bit of union busting--so it's nice to get an advertiser expressing a sentiment I can endorse unreservedly.
To no one's surprise, Project Runway can't find herself getting worked up about the firings of US Attorneys, yet she does acknowledge, with her usual contrarian disdain for actual thought,.
As a pampered academic, I don't have nearly enough to do on any given day. When I'm not lounging in my spacious, teak-floored office, snorting haughtily at the strange religious.
I'm a little puzzled by this Sasha Volokh post, in which he cites an article by Mike Seidman pointing out that the indeterminate nature of legal materials has produced conservative results as the federal courts have become dominated by Republican appointments and then uses it as...
Good for Alan Simpson, who notes the empirical difficulties with the idea that if we don't indulge the ex ante bigotry of some military and political leaders it will somehow.
"Mistakes were made." We'll outsource the commentary on this one to Mr. Trend.
What's the deal with this? Kaus:Where's "Faggot-Guy"? ... It seems like only last week that Andrew Sullivan was calling me "faggot-guy" at every available opportunity. ("[F]rom now on ... on those few occasions when his name comes up, he will have a new appellation on this...
I'm in DC, working on various research. Best part of archival research is the trivial anecdotes that you come across. Found this in Special Collections at the Washington Naval Yard:Soon.
If he were still living, William Joseph Casey would be enjoying his 94th birthday. Head of the SEC under Nixon and the CIA under Ronald Reagan, Casey died of pneumonia.
A comment below by R. Stanton Scott seems worth highlighting:Those who argue that some citizens should be excluded from military service because their presence would hurt "unit cohesion" are saying that current soldiers should be able to decide with whom they serve. This is bravo sierra--the...
Just 3 days removed from almost choking to death because of an allergic reaction to nuts, after repeated requests for the vinaigrette some clown at the Hale&Hearty applied some "Asian.
Treason-in-Defense-of-Slavery Yankee. While the old newspapers and oily rags pile up in his living room, and as he passes his days eating cheese sandwiches and saving his own excrement in.