Michael Totten has a long photoessay. Remember to support him with the tip jar.
Iraq is a big place. It is more or less the size of California. If a car bomb were to go off in San Diego, it wouldn
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No Danegeld
Christopher Hitchens has a long but fascinating history of the beginning of the war of the US versus Islam. I’ve always thought that this would make a great movie, particularly since September 11th.
Who Would Give Up First?
Boris Johnson says that it’s time for England to reconquer France (“reconquer”? Is he referring to Waterloo?).
A couple months ago, I’d have thought it a trivial exercise, what with the several reverse speeds on the French tanks and all, but with the wimpy performance by the Royal Navy in the Shatt al Arab and the ensuing response from Whitehall, it’s not clear who would win the rush to surrender.
Where Did That Come From?
How did this guy acquire such a hatred of “rich people”?
Surely it couldn’t have had anything to do with the fact that he was under the tutelage of the English Department?
What The Dems Really Think About The Military
This is pretty funny.
“Halp us, Jon Cary–We’re Stuck In A Cave.”
It’s fascinating how an auto insurance ad campaign can so quickly become a cultural icon.
[Update]
OK, it’s an oldie (a few months). But I missed it the first time around.
A Middle Ground?
Eugene Volokh (who I’m given to understand has a pretty tight pattern at the range) asks “why not at least arm the professors who want to be“? The argument is, as usual, comprehensive.
[Update a few minutes later]
Best comment so far: “You really want to arm Ward Churchill?”
[Update at 3:45 PM EDT]
Another amusing comment:
In order to reflect the hierarchy of faculty, there would have to be stratification:
Assistant Professors get muzzle-loaders
Associate Professors get semi-automatics
Full Professors get automatics
Adjuncts get a sharp letter-opener
Chaired Professors are irrelevant, since they never come to campus
Two Americas
One in which a rich tort lawyer pontificates on “two Americas” but gets $400 haircuts, and one in which that’s like a bad joke.
A VPI Casualty Who Some Of Us Know
Please extend your best wishes for a rapid and full recovery to Eric Anderson’s step daughter.
Space Investment Summit
Sam has been blogging individual items from it, but Charles Lurio has an overview over at Space Transport News today.
Baseball Blogging
From a world class pitcher. That’s what I call disintermediation, and it’s pretty cool, but I suspect that not all baseball players are articulate enough to do this. And as Joe Katzman points out, the jealousy of the sports writers, and this comment, are pretty amusing.
On a side note, I watched the Tigers blow a game against the Royals yesterday. They’re doing pretty well so far this year, but they can’t give up tying runs in the ninth, and then lose it in the tenth, and get back to the series. Especially against the cellar team in their division.