[updated again] (Read on only if you’ve seen the film or don’t intend to see it. The...
Month: September 2009
Evan Thomas and Will Wilkinson have some interesting things to say on the subject of healthcare. The...
“So we’ve got beliefs P and Q. Let’s say Q is “obviously unreasonable” by virtue of beliefs...
Christopher Hitchens takes a shot at Jon Stewart, Al Franken, and Stephen Colbert. Too much of his...
The moral of the story is that if you’re going to get it wrong, get it ALL...
Merit pay’s out, but teacher job security may still take a hit. Here’s The Washington Post on...
. . . is listening to a thoroughly befuddled Chris Collinsworth try to explain the awful offensive...
Paul Bettany’s best role to date was as a 19th century naturalist. Now he’s playing Charles Darwin...
Not to pick old wounds, but I was digging around and found this interview with Jonah Goldberg...
Nefarious War by Li Po Translated from the Chinese by Shigeyoshi Obata Last year we fought by...
I could go on a harangue about this, but really, the thing that kept popping into my...
I’ve been following Jim Manzi’s series* on evolution and teleology with some interest. In his most recent...
Apparently, Michael Jordan’s acceptance speech was pretty awful, and I think it points to the fact that...
Here’s an interesting Prospect article on Geocities and online memory that also discusses the Myspace-Facebook class divide:
Matt Zeitlin’s post on 9/11 is top notch, and I recommend that you read it. Here’s an...
After eight years, the best sentiment remains the one immortalized by a classmate’s homemade t-shirt the day...
This is pretty dumb: Apparently, if you’re against irresponsible rumor-mongering about death panels you’re also not allowed...
Barry Ritholtz has an interesting post suggesting that the Democrats made a significant tactical error in pursuing health...
Fouad Ajami uses the anniversary of the attacks on NYC and Washington DC as a launching pad...
Okay, so just check out Memeorandum today. I think my thesis still holds.