Shorter Glenn Reynolds and Don Surber: "Only Luddites believe that drug companies should disclose payoffs to doctors and advertising; everyone knows that if drug companies didn't make unlimited profits from copycat drugs, then R&D would effectively cease, just like in Canada. Except for that new cancer...
China has destroyed a satellite, joining Russia and the United States as the only countries capable of both putting objects in space and blowing them up. Some angles:Deterrence: First and.
I'm still behind, so it will be a little bit before I can get an arbitrarily numbered film list out (come to think of it, I haven't even done 2005.
When Dave Noon came on board, he sent me Imperial Life in the Emerald City as a gift. I was inspired...
OK, so the New York Times publishes a monumentally idiotic (and egregiously sexist) article about the fashion choices of female political leaders. No allegedly seriously blogger (with a tendency to.
In TAPPED comments, Bob Somerby directs is to this 2002 op-ed from Virignia's newly elected Senator:Other than the flippant criticisms of our "failure" to take Baghdad during the Persian Gulf.
I note here that Al Gore's pre-war remarks hold up rather better than the predictions of the war's cheerleaders, despite attempts to claim that everyone was equally wrong. Atrios does us the favor of collecting some of the contemporaneous reaction to Gore's speech(including Neal Pollock's dead-on...
Ezra has some interesting observations on inadvertent learning and the blogosphere. By getting our news predominantly from blogs and online sources, he suggests, we run the risk of missing out.
Which entity poses a greater threat to civil liberties?(a) an administration that has detained foreign "terrorists" without trial for more than five years; mustered law enforcement agencies to surveil the.
Not so fondly, Loomis remembers 18th-century serial rapist and diarist William Byrd II. But since Byrd clearly didn't rape every woman with whom he came into contact, we should resist feeling any "autopilot compassion" for the "Tallow-faced Wench" whose injured arm presented no obstacle to Bryd...
Bo Yibo, last of the Eight Immortals of the Communist Party, has shuffled off his mortal coil. Bo Yibo is one of the very last of the Long March generation,.
Ezra points us to Julian Sanchez's excellent rebuttal to Megan McArdle's claim that critics of the war were just a wrong as the supporters. For my part, it's somewhat difficult.