Applebaum:Someday, perhaps, when Iraq's civil war is over, and when Iraqis have achieved a measure of personal safety—an even more basic human requirement than political freedom—it may be possible for Iraqis, at least, to think objectively about the physical and the psychological damage that Saddam's regime...
Has anyone ever seen the 1959 Our Man in Havana, directed by Carol Reed and starring Alec Guiness? I'm just finishing a Graham Greene collection (more on that later), and.
Virgil Goode.
Althouse, 8:17 am January 1:Write shorter blog posts. Blog posts will be as short as I can make them. Crisp! Honed with a sharp edge. Look out.And 22 hours later, amid a staggering, petulant 2602-word post, half of which is comprised of block quotations from Jonathan...
Apropos of nothing, there's this from The Guardian:Saddam Hussein was mostly an uncomplaining prisoner who saved crumbs to feed the birds, watered weeds in the jail compound and believed that.
Although I predicted that the Sooners would handle Boise State, I'm taking no small pleasure in watching the Broncos take advantage of four turnovers to pound the snot out of.
Thanks to the reader who gave me Nicholas Lemann's Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War. I'll get it read and reviewed as soon as I post reviews of the last two books I was supposed to review...Thanks also to whoever just dropped $10 in...
Kaus, purportedly channeling Tim Noah: He said it: Only Slate 's Tim Noah, however, has had the balls to prematurely speculate about a partisan Schiavo do-si-do in which Tom DeLay.
Roger has it.
Winner of the Bildungsroman Award for Best Coming of Age Matt Yglesias makes a simple but nonetheless not often enough made point here:The saddest thing about the 3,000th American death in Iraq is that unlike the first batch of casualties, people getting killed or maimed in...
To follow up on Atrios and Ezra, let me carry the stats in this Times article one step further. Let's use their figures to extrapolate government health care spending per.
I really try to be optimistic about things early in the year, and then I see that the Calgary Herald today features eight bloody pages of horoscopes. Weren't there at.