In the Somalia comment section below, Eric Martin writes:Now, do I think that fear of further inflaming Muslim opinion through our actions in the Horn should be our overriding and primary concern? No.And clearly, an action such as the invasion of Iraq is going to have...
What better way to spend a slow blogging season than by posting some favorite hatchet jobs? In comments to yesterday's post, many people are bringing up Matt Taibbi's classic review.
Again, I say: Sebelius for VP![Link Fixed.]
Eric Martin links to Fred Kaplan's nice illustration of how reduced recruiting standards matter for military performance:The pattern is clear: The higher the score on the aptitude test, the better the performance in the field. This is true for individual soldiers and for units. [...]Smarter also...
LGM, on the other hand, will happily endorse the first candidate to buy a Blogad on our site.Not really, but I wish someone would buy a damn Blogad. We've been.
I have to admit that I'm a little puzzled by Matt's dudgeon regarding the Ethiopia-Somalia war. The situation in Somalia has, for the last fifteen years, been just about as.
As noted by many commenters, the inevitable meltdown as Althouse refuses to acknowledge the plain meaning of her remarks or suggest another coherent one has occurred [no link because she not only refuses to link to anybody she's dishonestly criticizing but whines endlessly when Andrew Sullivan...
Apropos of nothing, I would like to note that this John Leland [thanks to commenter for the typo correction] review of some compilation of the unread profit-taking by famous authors.
Tim Kurkijian on Tony Gwynn:Gwynn is the best hitter since Ted Williams. No.Tony Gwynn was about as good a hitter as one can be without substantial power or patience at.
Juan Cole has a nice discussion of Gerald Ford's foreign policy. Cole concludes that Ford's record was solid enough, relative to his contemporaries. Loomis does not fully concur, noting that Ford made virtually no effort to press Latin American dictatorships towards better behavior. I probably lean...
Eric Martin cuts to the chase:Let's say, again ex arguendo, that Iran's actions have been intolerabely malicious and destructive, and that our own acts and intentions have been peaceful and.
I see that, via various links from this year's Wank of the Year awards, that The Editors's classic Shill Central Station parodies have all been conveniently restored to the intarweb.