Today Among Thin-Skinned Hacks

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Via Redbeard, I see that forth-rate novelist, global warming denialist, xenophobe, and Bush Administration scientific consultant Michael Crichton inserted a child rapist named after the New Republic's Michael Crowley (who had dismantled Crichton's anti-scientific propaganda) into his new novel. Classy!

Navy Reading List

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Managed to acquire a copy of the Navy Professional Reading Program List. Here's a selection:Junior Enlisted:Lincoln on Leadership, Donald PhillipsEnder's Game, Orson Scott Card (!)Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein (!?!)The Kite Runner, Khaled HosseiniA Passage to India, E.M. ForsterPetty Officer:Shackleton's Way, Margot Morrell, Stephanie CapparellBilly Budd, Herman...
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December 13

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Ted Nugent -- rock guitarist, walking phallus and self-parodying right-winger -- turns 58 today. He shares his birthday with the legendary Alvin York, who led a devastating attack on a nest of German machine-gunners during the Battle of the Meuse-Argonne in 1918; on more than one...

A Rotten Anniversary

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Today, I am sad to remind everyone, is the sixth anniversary of the grotesque and consequential Bush v. Gore decision, which was delivered in all its steaming feculence by five.

Today in Victory Talk

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From Powerline:My view is that if winning means having a country in which Iraqis don't kill one another in large numbers, then we're unlikely to win any time soon. However, if winning means having a country no portion of which is controlled by those who threaten...
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