Friday dose of Krauthammer: The critics at home, echoing the Shiite sectarians in Baghdad, complain that an essential part of this strategy — the “20 percent solution” that allows former-insurgent Sunnis to organize and arm themselves — is just setting Iraq up for a greater civil war. But this assumes that a Shiite government in… Continue reading
Great new science blog, Quintessence of Dust, by Stephen Matheson, an associate professor of biology at Calvin College in Michigan (critic of intelligent design arguments and a big Shakespeare fan). I think it gets much worse than that for anti-evolution thinkers. I regularly see certain old-earth creationists (e.g. the folks at Reasons To Believe) and… Continue reading
Red Sox Chick does a good job explaining why a lot of whining Yankees fans need to get a life.
It’s long overdue, but Teresa Nielsen Hayden reports her husband and longtime Tor books editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden has (finally) won the 2007 Hugo award for best editor. Congratulations to Patrick. He deserved to win it about, oh, twelve years ago….
What a great way to start September! Fifteen days after making his major league debut against the Angels in the first game of a day-night doubleheader, a day that began with manager Terry Francona telling a sleepy morning assemblage of reporters that “[it] doesn’t matter if he throws a no-hitter, he’s going back down,” 23-year-old… Continue reading