Starting the week off with some lazy blogging: Read Duck of Minerva's daily roundup. I get most of this stuff from them, anyway. What are navies good for: Africa edition. Scalzi on Reddit, trolls, and the "highly constrained" popular understanding of the term "free speech....
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Stuff that's been hanging around in the inbox... How economic slowdown in China may affect the PLAN. How China uses seapower. Royal Navy action reports from World War I and.
Links as I struggle to stay awake for the Ducks... Vote! Unless you plan to vote for the wrong sequels, in which case you should just stay home. The Final.
Some random Friday linkage: I like Max Fisher; I have nothing against his family. He stands between me and Eli Lake, and that means he's gonna get paved over. Luck is gone. I really, really tried to get into it; there's obviously a lot of...
Salmon and TBogg on our poor, beleaguered plutocrat class. Jim Sensenbrenner is displeased with Michelle Obama's "posterior," and believes this makes her a hypocrite based on well-known Scientific Knowledge that.
The Senate may be making it more difficult to withdraw from Afghanistan, although of course the status quo also has substantial downsides. Who will win Iowa? I wonder if Paul.
Having Roland Emmerich pander to Shakespeare birthers may be too cruel to the birthers. Maybe maybe we can get Tom Shadyac to do an Orly Taitz hagiography... When a young woman's privacy is grossly violated and she is possibly forced to perform sex acts against...
So many candidates! Tucker Carlson. Ev psych sexists. Our Galtian overlords. CBS, Michael Patrick King, and Whitney Cummings.
This is a trend now? I can't speak for my fellow recent grooms among the LGM community (well, actually, I think I can), but I can't say this is a.
This depressing trial should remind us that the real world is nothing like what goes on on BHL's head. Or, rather, resembles it all too well. Rape v. flat tires: a helpful Venn diagram for Republican legislators. I think Shafer has a point here, in...
Although the authoritarian tautology is the more likely outcome, using the killing of Bin Laden as a good reason to end the "War on Terror" (as opposed to trying to.
This parable does indeed get to the heart of things: "David Koch is sitting at a table with a schoolteacher and a Tea Party activist. On the table is a.