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Archive for October 12th, 2005

Toninght, my home played host to five college girls, and all of them were here at the same time. This is the type of thing an adolescent male would dream of. But as good as it looks on paper, the reality is much harsher. For one thing, they talk. All of them. Often at the [...]

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2-1

Well, that was an interesting end. So, about that last pitch to Pierzinski: Pierzinski ran to first, so he obviously though that something was up. In the post game interview, he said he was sure that the ball hit the ground and that he never heard the umpire call him out. The replay looks like [...]

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But They Found No Gold Rings

Hobbits! Scientists say they have found more bones in an Indonesian cave that offer additional evidence of a second human species — short and hobbit-like — that roamed the Earth the same time as modern man. But the vocal scientific minority that has challenged that conclusion since the discovery of Homo floresiensis was announced last [...]

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Bringing Democracy Without Destroying the Villiage

In my last post, I mentioned that I could think of no examples of successfully installing democracy without the decimation of the civilian population. I can think of only three historical examples of successful implantation of democracy by outsiders through force, and one of those is a stretch. The first two are the Germany and [...]

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Iraq Was Always a Bad Decision

So the liberal hawks are going through another round of justification for their initial support for the war. Matt Yglesias and Josh Marshall are two recent examples. The problem for them is that there is simply no justification that could possibly have made the Iraq invasion the correct choice. And it should have been clear [...]

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Cheney a Suspect?

This would be huge. It fits with what I know of his personality, but it would be incredible of the Vice President of the United States of America directly participated in the outing of an undercover CIA agent for personal political gain.

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