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July 03, 2007 01:47 AM EDT -- This began as a comment at Making Light, but got long enough that I decided to cross-post it here. It's in reaction to a question that Jim Macdonald asked about Bush's obstruction of justice (via) . . . more
June 01, 2007 04:52 PM EDT -- Quoth Drum: "[T]he Bush administration has, for the past four years in Iraq, been busily building permanent military bases the size of small towns to go along with an embassy compound more suited . . . more
August 28, 2007 05:18 PM EDT -- Starting today, and for a week, the first single from Bruce Springsteen's upcoming new studio album Magic -- "Radio Nowhere" -- is available for free on iTunes. (Yeah, it comes with iTunes' . . . more
August 14, 2007 11:58 PM EDT -- From tomorrow's NY Times: The Bush administration is preparing to declare that Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps is a foreign terrorist organization, senior administration officials said Tuesday. . . . more
July 12, 2007 11:22 AM EDT -- Via Andrew Sullivan, Jane Galt says that it was right to impeach Nixon and not Bush in part since Nixon fell because his behaviour was inarguably criminal, and worse, petty criminal. And he had it all . . . more
October 02, 2007 02:23 PM EDT -- It's a staple of the Buffyverse, and so many other fantasy/horror/etc genre pieces: a villain needs to kill someone -- often an innocent -- to gain power, to complete some demonic ritual, or simply . . . more
May 27, 2007 04:43 PM EDT -- How do you honor soldiers -- genuinely honor their profound and honorable sacrifices -- while deploring the war they are fighting? As this is -- alas! -- a question for Memorial Day tomorrow, I point you . . . more
August 07, 2007 03:44 PM EDT -- I don't have much to add to what everyone else has said about this, but I need to add my amen: the 16 Democrats who voted to give Bush yet more unchecked surveillance power are cowards (if you can't . . . more
September 13, 2007 05:44 PM EDT -- I just finished reading Gene Wolfe's two-volume novel, The Wizard Knight, made up of The Knight (2004) and The Wizard (2005). The following is a long essay reviewing (in some sense) the work, focusing . . . more
September 25, 2007 08:12 PM EDT -- As a student of Twentieth Century history, I know the story of the integration of Little Rock's Central High School very well, of course -- I've even taught it to my history classes including, . . . more
May 14, 2007 12:59 AM EDT -- Tenth of a series of posts about 100 great comics pages. Links to: an introduction to the series; an index of posts by creator; an index of posts by title. "Megillat Esther" is the Hebrew term . . . more
May 16, 2007 05:05 PM EDT -- I tend to work for a long time on my blog posts before posting them, often deleting half-baked efforts that haven't worked out. So I hope you'll forgive some thinking out loud, some extremely tentative . . . more
May 31, 2007 12:49 AM EDT -- On the short list of my all-time favorite TV shows (along with Buffy, Firefly, Veronica Mars, The Wire, and a few others) is an NBC show that ran for seven seasons (two of them unusually short), called . . . more
September 21, 2007 05:58 PM EDT -- (Part two of a series. Part One, the introduction, can be found here.) Who can win? Frankly, this is not the issue that I want to focus on. There are lots of reasons for this. First, I am not a political . . . more
September 24, 2007 12:09 PM EDT -- (Part four of a series. Links to earlier parts: Part One, Introduction; Part Two, Who Can Win?; Part Three, The Affirmative Action Arguments.) One more bad argument to be dealt with, before I get to the . . . more
September 27, 2007 08:15 PM EDT -- Talking to a friend today, he pointed out that if you look at the original W. W. Denslaw illustrations to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, you can clearly see that the Tin Woodman is shooting up. I just checked . . . more
July 26, 2007 03:21 PM EDT -- Yet another reason from Matt Yglesias. In regards to Clinton's campaign tactics in the Obama-Clinton debate, he writes: [Her campaign tactics] reflect a certain set of beliefs about politics -- specifically . . . more
August 29, 2007 05:20 PM EDT -- Two years ago today Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans. Let us remember, again, our fellow citizens who died because of that. Let us remember our historic city of New Orleans -- still . . . more
September 25, 2007 12:11 PM EDT -- As a student of Twentieth Century history, I know the story of the integration of Little Rock's Central High School very well, of course -- I've even taught it to my history classes including, . . . more
October 12, 2007 12:26 AM EDT -- Is the dancer going clockwise or counter-clockwise? Make sure to look long enough to get the motion to flip. For me, the default is powerfully counter-clockwise -- that's what I see first, and if . . . more
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