Three-Toed Sloth

The Continuing Crisis

Shorter Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Analogous Partitions or Alphabetical Provocation?

"Ceterum censeo, Carthago delenda est" (Saturday Classical Precedent Blogging)

"The Case for Building an Afghan Auxiliary Military Force"

Let Me Be Among the First to Welcome Our New Orbital Cybernetic Zombie Overlords!

Korean Dutch Book

Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise (Episodes from the Babylonian Captivity of the Republic)

Yet More Political Data Analysis (or: "There you go, bringing class into it again")

It Came from the Cartogram

Decided and Divided Americas

The Long March

"It has already produced immense cataclysms, and will no doubt produce others in the future" (Uncle Bertie Joins the Reality-Based Community)

Always Gibber, Gibber, Gibber, Eh, Dr. Shalizi?

Believing in the Will

Joan Didion Is Elegantly Shrill; or, "What rough beast, its hour come round at last..."

It's Going to Be Just Like the Old Country

Legalizing Torture

The Dead in Gallipoli, and in Iraq

Today's Depressingly-Likely Spam Subject Line

Millennium, Modernity and Shrillness

Objectivists for Kerry!

Shrill, Shrill, Shrill (with a Will)

Assorted Reading

The Rectification of Names

Persecution and the Art of Neoconservative Writing

More Assorted Reading

Clark on American Hegemony

Decentralized Malevolence

Hey, Sarge, Why Are They Shooting At Us with American Guns?

Re-Elect Gore in 2004!

A Modest Proposal, or Maximizing Birds per Stone

There Is Much Ruin in a Nation; or, Novus Ordo Seclorum

Our Geopolitical Situation, Dispassionately Assessed

Today's snippets

This Is Going to Be Fun

News from Tartary

De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace

"The Pentagon has some explaining to do"

Short Takes

"Naked Power, Arbitrary Rule"

"Unjust, unwise, un-American"

Another Reason I'm Glad I'm Not a Social Scientist

Listen to Him

The Fiscal Crisis of the State

Even the Conservative William Safire

2001 and All That

Not My Antiwar, Thank You Very Much

Cheap Shot Before Departing

How to Be a Responsible Physicist

How Not to Be a Responsible Physicist

Chomsky and Zinn on The Fellowship of the Ring, or, "Can't you see the violence inherent in the subcreation?"

Compare and Contrast

Their Markets and Ours

Malawi Revisited

Letter to a Friend in Boston, or, Why Are We Ruled By These Idiots, Part 437?

Kurdish Betrayals; a Fifth International?

It was a free country, wasn't it?

Civilization Fell While I Wasn't Looking