I must confess, I've never been able to sit through James Bond movies or enjoy them on any level. Which makes it all the more odd that pretty much my favorite TV show throughout my childhood was Get Smart. By the time I was 15, I'd...
The disappointing course of Operation Iraqi Freedom invariably, for an American, brings the Vietnam War to mind. The Vietnam analogy is of limited applicability to the current situation in Iraq..
What he said.
Flat tires suck.Flat spare tires, in the abstract, suck less. In practice, they suck more.Please, check your spare tire for proper inflation. Think of the children.
Deep Thoughts, by Tacitus:Suffice it to say that neither pole of the American ideological mainstream has a claim to a consistent life ethic. The left at large is willing to.
So, we have 4 teams for 3 AL slots...who's going to be the odd team out? More than anything, I'm hoping that the Tribe keep winning, partly because it would.
I must admit, young Octavian is my favorite part of Rome. Watching him negotiate his way to tyranny will be fun. I didn't realize until today that he is played by Max Pirkis, who played the young midshipman in Master and Commander.
Via Andrew Sullivan:Did you know that one of Pat Tillman's favorite authors was Noam Chomsky and that he opposed the Iraq war? I didn't. It makes his patriotism and service.
I've been working on this post for close to a year. I return to it every time I watch Battle of Algiers, which I saw last Thursday for the fourth.
I haven't blogged about North Korea lately, mostly because I've been trying to figure out what's going on with the deal. I think that Drum and Yglesias are right about the approach; giving North Korea most of what it wanted (with the exception, it would seem,...
TBogg finds this gem from constitutional scholar Roger L. Simon, who claims that Russ Feingold demonstrated that he was a principled liberal by voting for John Roberts:On the other hand,.
USS New York (BB-34) was the ninth dreadnought battleship built for the US Navy. Commissioned in April of 1914, New York displaced 27000 tons, could make 21 knots, and carried.