A day late is better than nothing. A military history of the United States from World War II on as portrayed by food. (Hat tip to Sam.) Even the dancing Filipino prisoners know the Soulja Boy now. Mechanization run amok. I hope Michael Cera doesn’t end up getting overexposed really quickly because he needs to [...]
Archive for November, 2011
It looks like Iraq is getting hit by yet another shitstorm–not that the place has been anything close to safe over the last eight months, but the violence seems to ratcheting back up. From CNN: Fighting between Iraqi government troops and what officials call rogue or outlaw members of Shiite militias has spread through southern [...]
Mike Gravel, who you might remember for his cantankerous tirades against the other Democratic candidates and their pro-war positions at the presidential debates last summer, is now seeking the presidential nomination of, wait for it, the Libertarian Party. I’m not saying Gravel doesn’t have some libertarian qualities, but no libertarian (or even Libertarian) I’ve ever [...]
The rapper DMX clearly doesn’t have an opinion on the Reverend Wright controversy, but he does have some strong opinions on Barack Obama’s name: Are you following the presidential race? Not at all. You’re not? You know there’s a Black guy running, Barack Obama and then there’s Hillary Clinton. His name is Barack?! Barack Obama, [...]
As far as embarassments to the game of baseball, steroids and the Black Sox scandal have nothing on this music video. I have never really been impressed by shadow puppets until I saw this. You are not helping the image of surfers. Testing acid on British soldiers. More nerd jokes. Well, at least he’s not [...]
I’m normally not a big fan of Cathy Young, but her article on Putin and Russia in the newest reason is well worth reading. It’s not online yet, so I can’t link it, but here’s what I consider the most important paragraph: ….Putinism is not a return to communism so much as a movement toward [...]
Today was the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War. If the war were a child, it would be finishing up kindergarten. To mark the occasion, go this Agitator post to compare pre-war statements from the supposedly very sober and serious neoconservatives who thought this war up and the wild-eyed, idealistic libertarians who [...]
I have vague memories of watching Ken Burns’ The Civil War when it came out in 1990, but since that was so long ago, I was so young at the time, and I’ve liked all of his other documentaries I decided to put it in my Netflix queue. I just finished watching the first episode [...]
In case you hadn’t noticed, the economy is going down the shitter. In response to this state of affairs, the Federal Reserve Board has repeatedly cut their interest rates to inject extra liquidity into the market and has taken the unprecedented move of securing J.P. Morgan’s buyout of the effectively bankrupt Bear Stearns. Unfortunately, such [...]
If you are a libertarian, are interested in libertarian ideas, or just want to know why these libertarian people believe such crazy things, check out my friend Dan McCarthy’s tentative four year libertarian syllabus. (I must admit that I haven’t actually read every book on it, but I have read the vast majority of them.) [...]
