Where am I?
I’m in the midst of doing a rush edit on a brief that has to get to the publisher tomorrow morning.
Continue readingMonth: January 2007
Ignorance or poor proofreading
I can never figure out if the extraordinary number of errors in the written materials the schools send me result from ignorance or carelessness.
Continue readingThey’re different in the flyover states
Nancy Pelosi’s daughter, Alexandra — raised Catholic, but not currently practicing her religion — is selling her new movie, which focuses on Evangelical Christians. Her San Francisco Chronicle interview is worth reading, to my mind, for a couple of things. To begin with, it’s interesting to see Pelosi’s embarrassed, guilt-stricken
Continue readingWhatever happened to assumption of the risk?
As we know, reporters in war zones get hurt. In just the most recent war, Michael Kelly died and Bob Woodruff was seriously injured. It’s not new. The famed Robert Capa died in Indochina reporting on the war there. Indeed, reporting can often be a dangerous business, and we can
Continue readingClosing in on Napoleon’s secret
In his later portraits, and in so many caricatures, Napoleon is shown with his hand tucked in his jacket, holding his stomach. Turns out he may have had a good reason for doing so. Modern research indicates that those who autopsied Napoleon immediately after his death were right — he
Continue readingIncreasingly small world
I am getting a whole bunch of hits from a blog called “Ihmissuhteet ja tasa-arvo,” since that blog linked to a post I wrote about women’s lib having caused men to cease feeling protective towards women.
Continue readingThe anti-prima donna
If you’ve got a few minutes, take time to read this Atlantic Monthly interview with Chief Justice Roberts. It really does give one hope that he can lead the Supreme Court to a new era of sanity. Roberts has correctly diagnosed one of the Court’s major problems, which is the
Continue readingShould there be a remedy for all wrongs?
One of the catch phrases you learn in law school is that “for every wrong there is a remedy.” This means that anyone with a legitimate grievance can show up in court and get some redress, even if it’s only the symbolic peppercorn. The problem is that, something that redresses
Continue readingThis is not Lake Wobegon
Kevin directed me to the first part of Charles Murray’s three part article about the effect the Bell Curve has on classrooms and resources. It’s extremely un-PC, but to anyone with an iota of logic (or a history of passing through the public school system, as I did), it’s absolutely
Continue readingMore for the fake but accurate file
George Bush is such an easy target for the media that it often seems like just a waste of time to go for factual accuracy. Take the Kyto Protocol. A recent AP article makes the casual assertion that “The United States is no longer bound by Kyoto, which the Bush
Continue readingThe Australian way to confront terrorism
Austrialian government officials have impressed many with their frank speaking about the threat of radical Islam. It turns out that this isn’t just talk, but is also allied with bipartisan action aimed at exposing and isolating radical Islamists in Australia: It so happens that the approach advocated for Britain by
Continue readingThe scam what am
Americans are increasingly convinced that the war in Iraq is a failure and that the Iraqis are desperados, desperate to see the US leave. Their understanding is unsurprisingly, given that the MSM keeps pressing this view, despite the fact that there is more and more evidence that the media, unable
Continue readingLean, mean and relaxed
Entirely without effort, I used to be one of those incredibly skinny people you occasionally see around. I could live on ice cream and hamburgers, and still look emaciated. Two children later, those days are gone, so I’m interested in articles that discuss new ideas about weight loss and body
Continue readingFresh ideas at the UN
I’ve long thought the UN irredeemably corrupt, with the miserable Kofi Annan merely a symptom, not a cause of the problem there. I’m wondering, though, if I might have to revise that thinking just a little bit, in light of something new at UNIFIL. Thanks to Laer, at Cheat-Seeking Missiles,
Continue readingEurope and Israel
When I was first in France, in 1982, Israel had just invaded Southern Lebanon. Already then, Parisian citizens made their views on the subject known, since grafitti on every surface flowered with vile, anti-Semitic threats and descriptions. Surprisingly, I didn’t see that type of grafitti this time around, perhaps because
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