I know what you’re thinking, I’m being a show-off area specialist, Asian language names can be hard for anglophones (and vice versa), and who cares about KIS anyway, because this crisis is about Kim Jong Un? All of that is true of course, especially the first one, but...
I’ve been thinking a lot about the war this month. I’ll be teaching it in the next few weeks at school because of the decade anniversary (March 20). My quick sense is that any defensible theory...
On Interstate 71, south of Columbus; Ohio’s most famous sign So it’s election time, which means CNN, etc. will be filled with pundits with only the vaguest credentials – never any PhDs -...
Last time I checked, 7M is twice as large as 3.5M. Therefore, if a 3.5M margin of victory is somehow a 'mandate', wouldn't it stand to reason that 7M is twice as emphatic a mandate? Or if nothing...
I know, I know. Anybody who reads our little blog has already seen this clip. But because I've been feeling madly, truly, and deeply annoyed at American political punditry lately, I think it is a mitzvah to put this clip on the Duck. Indeed, every blog should proudly broadcast this clip, until our purple mountain majesties ring with cries of "I can has enough!"
Listen people, Palin delivered a friggin speech. That someone else wrote. Biden delivered a speech. That someone else wrote. Obama delivered a speech. That he apparently wrote at least part of. McCain will deliver a speech. That someone else wrote.This is not speaking for yourself. It's more like a high-school forensics, albeit with the functional equivalent of performance-enhancing drugs... and woefully inconsistent judging on the "supportment" and "factual" citeria. Despite of the apparent evidence of my video blogging, I was, in fact, pretty good at high-school forensics. But I'd make a...
The youtube video of Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy saying what they really think about McCain's pick of Palin as VP will obviously get a lot of play among left-wing circles. But it is probably more significant as a window (if not a particularly surprising one) into the nature of contemporary punditry. As Taegan Goddard points out, Noonan's frank assessment of what Palin's pick means--"It's over"--directly contradicts her "own column in today's Wall Street Journal. Noonan clearly views her job as boosting her party rather than calling it as she sees it. I'd wager that outlook is pretty common...
Henry V did not begin the Hundred Years' War.That is all.