...[Victor Davis] Hanson has been joined by a couple of other lonely war hawks in denouncing torture, including Andrew Sullivan and blogger Sebastian Holsclaw, who weighed in earlier this month: "President Bush must be shown that the Republican Party is not willing to stand for the perversion of our moral standards," Holsclaw wrote. "The Republican ( Read more... )

From dark Dunharrow in the dim morning with thane and captain rode Thengel's ( Read more... )

Eeeee! Pictures from France!

( Well worth it, despite the goddamn Euro-Dollar exchange rate... )

Is there a way to rectify the universe as a chaotic deterministic system with human free will? Are there truly no totally random events? Is the universe simply not chaotic (or deterministic)? Should I stop engaging in mental activity beyond midnight to the extent that it leaves me hopelessly unable to sleep?

Questions, questions.

And the mind boggles...

Anybody out there want to tell me things in Iraq are going great, and it's only the "left barking moonbat media" that wants us to believe that there are problems? I'd be glad to have one of the proposed Special Forces kidnapping cum assassination teams drop by for a visit.

Gone to Paris, Strasbourg, and Frankfurt. Back on January 6th.

Carry on.

Where the hell are my grades?

A Conservative MP in the Canadian Parliament delivered the following rap on the floor in order to protest a relaxation of immigration laws intended to let more strippers in ( Read more... )

God, I worked hard on this one. Stupid professor only thought it was A- worthy. I'll nail his head to the wall when I'm in charge.

A Post-Communist Electoral System: Analysis of the Czech Republic

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.