Remind Me
What’s so great about living in Arizona? Oh yeah, I remember now. Heh.
A reflective post from Mark Kleiman about the war that also, in passing, wins the Mixed Metaphor of the Month Award:
The other was the Richard Perle “paper tiger” scenario, where the regime turned out to have a glass jaw.
“The Iraqi leaders were supposed to go down like a house of ninepins,” he did not […]
Kevin Drum’s liberal optimism comes out in interesting ways. For instance:
Still, the basic idea is sound: given that most of our misspellings are now corrected for us by computers, the only thing standing between us and perfect spelling is homonyms.
Alas, the main thing standing between us and better writing may be Microsoft Word. This is […]
Talking about a post by Amitai Etzioni, Matt Yglesias observes
At any rate, I think it is true that most of the big liberal theories that have been articulated dont do a terribly good job of explaining how and why we should treat children, so maybe this shot isnt quite as cheap as I thought.
Let […]
David Adesnik of OxBlog has responded to my criticism of OxDem and my view of the likely post-war experience in Iraq. Thanks to David for taking the time. Here is some reaction from me.
Following up on the one from the other day, here’s another great transcript of Aaron Brown interviewing someone, trying to push his own view via his questions, and then discovering he is losing the argument in a really embarrassing way. Hint to Aaron: if you want to strongarm interviewees, you need to have a strong […]
Go read Jim Henley’s response to this inane argument from Onkar Ghate. Ghate, an Objectivist writing for the Ayn Rand Institute, thinks “mass civilian casualties in terrorist countries” [sic!] are the fault of said innocent civilians. If nothing else, it’s worth seeing how a devoted follower of Ayn Rand manages not only to justify […]
Since Descartes’ cogito ergo sum, philosophers have thought that the content of our own conscious experience is the most indubitable thing each of us knows. Based on some recent experiences, however, I am willing to risk adding at least two more more things to the list.
Whether the Taxi is outside my house.
My house is […]
Robert Fisk, comparing Saddam Hussein to Joseph Stalin, was dismissed with contempt by David Adesnik, who said “Just when you thought he couldn’t be any stupider, he outdoes himself again.” Kevin Drum has already made a relevant comment here. But it turns out that Fisk is not the first to draw the comparison.
Far away from the sound and fury of the war, high up in the ivory tower, my review [pdf] of Stephan Fuchs’ Against Essentialism just appeared in the current issue of Contemporary Sociology.
Another day of heavy traffic to this site, nearly all of it due to referrals from Cursor.org. A commenter explained that it was because they were carrying Al Jazeera news in English, I think. In any event, I got more than 16,000 unique visitors. The comments section in the CNN post is a real zoo, […]
A subsidiary of Halliburton has won one of the first contracts to be awarded by the Government for rebuilding work in Iraq.
Update: For dessert, cynics may note that it was a no-bid contract.
Update 2: Actually, these appear to be two different contracts, both to Halliburton subsidiaries, one bid and one no-bid.
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