Miniver Cheevy

Juan Cole spins some scenarios about Iraq. Iraq ends up being somewhat like Lebanon was. The Lebanese had a civil war between 1975 and 198...

Hard on the heels of my recent reporting on this self-evidently excellent film, I learn that there's a trailer available on the web. ...

The Poor Man makes a daring assertion. What does this graph tell us? First of all, we can visually see the meaning of the terms "good...

President George W. Bush: I was very careful never to say that Saddam Hussein ordered the attacks on America. In Mark Crispin Miller...

I'm an intellecutal snob who reads high-toned magazines that often print reviews of not just one book, but some little cluster of two or...

Speaking of What Is Enlightenment? magazine, I picked up an issue last year and was astonished by what I read in a dialogue between ma...

Lego difference engine! What more can I say?

Two years after seeing his opus Just A Geek published, Wil Wheaton blogs achieving contentment with his geek nature. If I hadn't go...

Brad DeLong explains an example of why the Washington Post is not a reliable source for undestanding what is going on any more.

According to a computer, I bear a significant resemblance to Kevin Spacey, John Lennon, Yehudi Menuhin, John Denver, Colin Firth, Che Gueve...

Yes, that's the logo for a real movie , coming soon to a theater near you. Samuel L. Jackson says: That's the only reason I too...

I know some feminists who refuse to refer to the "pro-life" movement, referring to them instead as "pro-pregnancy." Via...

Via Internebbish, a new entry in our ongoing series of faux movie trailers, David Lynch's Something Blue .

Joss Whedon. Warren Ellis. Two snarky comics-writing popkultur slingers. One comment thread. Who will survive? Revenge, eh? So, mister ...

I learn from Warren Ellis that the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press conducted a poll (excerpted crisply here ) asking Am...

A few smart occultists of my acquaintance have been blogging lately about “transcendence.” I'd like to offer a metaphor that I pic...

Ganked wholesale from Paperwight's Fair Shot: War A politically useful rhetorical device used to describe a set of circumstances i...

Fametracker asserts that Matthew Lillard is the new Jeff Goldblum. Watching Lillard in 13 Ghosts is like watching a Jeff Goldblum muppet ...

Reason magazine has a crafty piece in which they ask a host of pundits Did you support the invasion of Iraq? Have you changed your posit...

Really. Fascinating.

People say that they don't like Aaron Sorkin's writing on The West Wing because “who talks like that?” But I swear, we have conver...

Via MKB, a terrific little essay about risk, utility, and money from Mark Dominus, whose blog has a really cool name. Consider the follo...

MKB quotes the Brad Mehldau essay Ideology, Burgers and Beer saying ... Ideology uses logic selectively, in a sneaky, backhanded manner. ...

Via Ezra Klein, I learn that Robert Farley has a ripping good post about the stupidity of the war hawks' dolchstoßlegende that domest...

Via Miriam bat Asherah, I offer you 55: a meditation on the speed limit around the perimiter . I gather that in the navy they call this a ...

I'm on the road this week without access to telephone and sporadic internet availability, so I may not be posting, and won't be resp...

It seems I think about good american people in iraq all the time , or something like that. You can make a word cloud of your own for...

Brad DeLong says that "Fafblog raises itself to a higher dimension of Fafbloginess" with an amazing post offering answers to thi...

Via Io , I am reminded of Truth Serum , the comics of Jonathan Adams. His work shows an amazing mastery of line, and a wry sense of humour a...

Via Monkeyboy's Linkblog , I learn of an incredibly fascinating video of an Encyclopedia Brittanica film made in 1946: Despotism & D...