Anyone got a coin I can flip?

Perhaps the only silver lining to the twin catastrophes of Ike and Lehman is that the media dust is finally settling on McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin for running mate. With that in mind, I’m going to try to look at both tickets with as strong a hype-filter as I can muster. First of all, [...]

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To impeach, or not to impeach?

On the first anniversary of the American incursion into Vietnam, a handful of college professors and radical beatniks started to make a little noise, but were dismissed as nuts. At two years a few more had joined the movement, largely still members of the same “nut” crowd. At three years, with the introduction of the [...]

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Well done, Iraq

This weekend, Iraq’s national soccer team won the Asian Cup, largely due to the efforts of their three-man strike team of one Sunni, one Shiite and one Kurd. People of all three sects set aside their conflict and celebrated together as brothers, if only for a short time. The next time I’m obsessing about soccer [...]

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