If you read Wufnik’s secession piece yesterday, you may have noticed that the inevitable cropped up in the comments: racism. You can’t talk about secessionist impulses anywhere – Scotland, Belgium, Spain, Quebec – without the subject of the US intruding, and that tends to mean the South. As in, the South in which I grew up […]
Archive | October, 2012
Drones: whatever became of U.S. respect for international norms prohibiting assassinations?
How effortlessly drones have insinuated themselves into our national narrative. As Micah Zenko of the Council on Foreign Relations writes in a post at his blog Politics, Power, and Preventive Action (thanks to the Progressive Realist for directing us to it): After following this program closely for the past half-dozen years, I have stopped being […]
Mr. Booth goes to the theater, ESPN FC fails to mention that assassination thing: sports "journalism" strikes again
It’s no secret to Chelsea fans that the sporting press, such as it is, does not love us overmuch. Time and again, whether we’re reading a match report or an editorial “analysis” or listening to in-game commentary, we’re confronted with “journalists” who seem on the verge of bursting into song every time something bad happens […]
Storm Watch: Sandy
Good luck and health to all of you in the storm’s path. This looks terrifying—two large storms coming together, very warm Atlantic temperatures, and a full moon. When these things come along, I always head for Weather Underground, especially the blogs there—there are now several good ones, including old reliable Jeff Masters, and a couple […]
Though bin Laden was hiding in plain sight, in the end he was tripped up by his caution
Security knows security when it sees it. Mark Bowden of Black Hawk Down fame has just weighed in on the mission to kill bin Laden with a book titled The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden (Atlantic Monthly Press). Much of the excerpt that Vanity Fair published chronicles how President Obama et al chose […]
Tournament of Rock IV: the KISS pod
In the previous match we saw a mild upset, as Bad Company nudged out Don Henley. In Alanis Morissette’s world, that’s ironic. BadCo advances to the Sweet 16. Up next: pod #6, where we have posted urgent testosterone warnings. #7 Seed: KISS Bad English Genesis (post-Peter Gabriel – 1978-forward) Nickelback Whitesnake KISS Rooted in the […]
It's time for the feds to consider RICO charges against the Boy Scouts of America
Back in September Kim Christensen and Jason Felch of the Los Angeles Times broke an absolute blockbuster of a story: the Boy Scouts of America have, for decades, been providing cover for pedophiles in its ranks. Over two decades, the Boy Scouts of America failed to report hundreds of alleged child molesters to police and often hid the […]
The seven kinds of rape (thx to the GOP for sorting this out)
Back in the old days rape was rape. Or, at most, there were two kinds. There was the “put on a ski mask and rape her at knifepoint” type and there was the “she said she was 18″ statutory type. Which wasn’t really rape at all, because, I mean, LOOK at her. And she really […]
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- Mystery Unraveled: How a white, moderate, married, churchgoing, middle-class, middle-aged woman could vote for Obama
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populartechnology: You are seriously comparing the mathematical error…
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Brian Angliss: Their methodology is imperfect. They admit it. I…
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I-5 bridge collapse: reflecting on our crumbling infrastructure | Scholars and Rogues: […] Wufnik from last November, post-Sandy: …
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