The Smurfs turn 48 today. I always hated the little blue bastards. Nonetheless, I appreciate their tough stance on the costs and consequences of aerial warfare.Their positions on Communism and Satanism are also, I think, fairly defensible.
...is TAP's gain, as it seems that TAPPED--making up for some rather more dubious recent hiring decisions--has snapped up Spencer Ackerman. A superb choice.
Don't they know how many people watch 'Lost' while stoned?The CIA aren't the only spooks with wacky recruiting stunts. The signals intelligence snoops over at the National Security Agency are.
Another reminder of why local ownership of media is neither here nor there in terms of either a progressive editorial slant or quality journalism: that epitome of third-rateness the Seattle Times has followed up its Bush 2000 endorsement by endorsing Mike McGavrick for the Senate. What's...
Apparently, George Bush is going to try to revive his privatize-Social-Security agenda, a happy confluence of an awful policy that's exceptionally unpopular. It's hard to follow the logic here:Hey, and.
Worse than you could imagine.Every day the corpses pile up in the capital like discarded furniture — at curbside, in lots, in waterways and sewer lines; every day the executioners.
Random Flickr Blogging explained by its creator (and LGM reader) Tom Hilton.And my contribution this week:Smucker's Crank: Kid-tested, mother-approved.
Everyone has gone batshit over the State Department official who confessed on al-Jazeera that things haven't gone so swimmingly in Iraq and that the United States has displayed, among other.
For reasons Tim Lambert explains in detail, I think Matt is being far too generous to Fred Kaplan's attempt to discredit the Lancet study, which doesn't seem to be any.
Shorter Althouse: "Compound sentences confuse me; moreover, I hate it when people assume I'm a right-winger simply because my views are often completely indistinguishable from those of the right wing. I can't believe Glenn Greenwald gets three times as many hits a day as I do!...
A Mercury class battlestar, Pegasus entered service at some point between the First and Second Cylon wars. Her design represented a remarkable advance over that of the earliest battlestars, occupying.
The Royal Navy effort to outpace the Germans in dreadnought numbers severely taxed the Royal Treasury. The Admiralty reasoned that since it fell to the Royal Navy to protect the.