The truck bomb that killed 130 today in Iraq is said to have wounded over 300. As is the case with American casualties, we focus on the dead. We should think more, though, about the wounded. If we assume that Lancet was accurate, we're probably closing...
Billy Harper, a 2007 (!?) Kentucky gubernatorial candidate, has a big ad campaign that's notable chiefly for the fact that it fails to mention that he's a Republican. He's willing.
As at least a partial antidote, some episodes of the anti-Studio 60 will be coming out on DVD. (It's funny! The satire has actual teeth! The characters don't all talk.
I have been, ah, less than optimistic about the quaility of Reading Outtakes From Persuasive Speech Competitions While Walking In Offices On The Sunset Strip and did not even have my low expectations met when I saw the thing. But while I can't stomach it anymore,...
Shorter Practically verbatim TIDOS Yankee: "I took a few geology classes 17 years ago, and I'm pretty sure that experience -- in addition to some information gleaned from a website.
Interview in the Frankfort State Journal. They seem to have printed the complete transcript of the tape recording; apparently I need to add more punctuation when I speak. I'm also.
"The Question Settled" is a print by the E.B. and E.C Kellogg Company, which ranked among the more popular producers of mass-market illustrations. The image, which dates from either late 1864 or early 1865, depicts "Old Abe" -- the white cat -- displacing "Jeff [Davis]" from...
Last night we screened Red Dawn at the Patterson School, first of the Spring Film Series. Red Dawn is not... a good movie. Most of us found it entertaining, although.
Antonin Scalia has done us the favor of explaining the equal protection theory behind the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore. (Which is handy, since the per curiam opinion.
I'm afraid that an otherwise good blogger who shall not be named approvingly cited this "classic" passage from Camille Paglia, the Mickey Kaus of "public intellectuals," explaining why she "was probably the only leading [sic] feminist [sic] to have believed Paula Jones right from the start":One...
Next time I lecture on the various Indian wars from the second half of the 19th century, I must remember to read this little bit of history from the Great.
It's the 39th anniversary of this scene, made famous in a photo by Eddie Adams. The image depicts the summary execution of Nguyen Van Lan -- an NLF fighter --.