Ann Althouse points out that fat people must be given two seats for the price of one on airplanes. This, of course, made me think of Ricky Gervais’s brilliant take...
The man sitting next to me is having a rough day. Bleary-eyed, shirt untucked, hair in mild disarray: He looks like life is moving faster than he’d like. Apparently, he...
In addition to the comments on my original post, there’s an interesting discussion brewing over at Upturned Earth; Matt Thompson dissents here and the comments are worth reading.
Over at John Schwenkler’s joint, J.L. Wall addresses the problem of the Geneva Conventions as they apply to enemy combatants. John and I went back and forth on this earlier...
Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski advise Barack Obama to reinvigorate the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. I agree with their analysis, and in principle with their prescriptions, but what good does it...
Following up on Donadio’s post, that oped follows an all-too-common model: take a piece you or someone else (in this case, Brzezinski) has written a number of times before. Insert...
