CalPundit remains Bush/Guard central, with new stories from the suddenly energized media appearing nearly hourly. Budget five minutes and read this remarkable article from the New Yorker. A DEMOCRATIC WORLD by GEORGE PACKER Can liberals take foreign policy back from the Republicans? In treating the war on terrorism as a mere military struggle, the Administration’s …
If you want to understand the American health care system and its impact on the country’s economics, you should read this. It’s a succinct summary of a study commissioned by the Manufacturers Alliance and the National Association of Manufacturers. Curb your cynicism, though; it appears to be a relatively accurate description of the problem, despite …
I’m having to console Tigger; she’s heartbroken. Her fellow German Shorthaired Pointer didn’t make it out of the first round.
Now this is funny. Here’s a list of “non-standard units of measurement”, including such items as 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League 365.25 days = 1 unicycle 1000 female sheep = 1 milieu 2 doctors = 1 paradox and more beauties along the same lines. Swiped …
I take a back seat to nobody when it comes to vivid imaginations, but I must admit that writing a (so-far) ten-volume alternate history of the United and Confederate States is so far beyond my abilities that I can only bow down in awe. I think I found this over in Theresa’s comments somewhere. If …
From Campaign Desk comes this link to the New York Review of Books’ analysis of pre-war press coverage; it’s not a pretty thing. In the period before the war, US journalists were far too reliant on sources sympathetic to the administration. Those with dissenting views—and there were more than a few—were shut out. Reflecting this, …
From the “know thine enemy” department: Grover Norquist writes: There are many good reasons to expect President George W. Bush to win re-election on November 2, 2004. And there is one good reason to believe a Democrat, any Democrat, will defeat him. [snip] The one big reason to bet against Bush is that the Republican …
In the wake of the Georgia schools’ argument about evolution, here’s a brand new website which addresses the teaching of the subject. It’s huge, and it’s fascinating. Quoting Carl Zimmer, one of its creators, Funded by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Foundation, it charts the history of evolutionary thought (both before …
We got approached by the Nielsen people, so we’re keeping a diary of television shows watched this week; if you’re trying to keep one of your favorites alive, bribes should be sent here. I’ll take them in the form of more server space or renewal of domain registry. ‘Course, since I gave Mom an MSN …
How did the 1918 flu virus infect humans? Well, viruses use “spike-like” molecules to attach themselves to cells, and apparently there were very few differences between the molecules in bird cells and those in humans for that particular virus, so it jumped pretty easily. This article from Time Asia explains what’s going on with avian …