More Crimson blogquips, this from Matthew Yglesias of “The Matt Yglesias Experience® “: “I have no idea what this story from the Arab News means, but it sounds funny ‘An official source at the Sacrificial Meat Utilization Project has disclosed that some 15 bogus companies have been found to be selling fake coupons for animal sacrifice to the pilgrims.’ “Of course, I’m sure it’s really a very serious thing if

Glad to see New Statesman article on the U.S.-Europe split. Interestingly, in the course of his analysis Glenn refers to himself as a “Kennedy Democrat who really believes that it’s our manifest destiny to save the world” — a designation that struck me as apposite to recent discussions about a rather curious shift in political labeling. That is, with the exception of his nod toward environmental populism (sad, that) —

A proposal to

The maturation of Bono? Who’d have thunk it? Time does a nice piece on

Writing in The Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol and Robert Kagen lavish praise on what they term “the

The budding Canuck intelligensia — goaded on by the entrenched Canuck intelligensia —

Charles C. Mann’s “1491” in this month’s Atlantic covers a growing movement in the earth and human sciences that recognizes the active role Native Americans played in shaping their own landscapes — in some cases, even inventing the conditions for landscapes using bacteria cultivation — to a degree never imagined by contemporary romantic enviromentalists; what conservationists like to think of as erstwhile “pristine” is instead, it turns out, a kind

Mysterious cartoon sniper, CIA mole, and occasional protein wisdom contributor Jim Treacher’s latest installment of “Get Your Gore On” — a serialized look at the world filtered through the hairy dangle of Al Gore’s TipperStripper — is ‘N Sync kid going into space, God, lifelong adolescence, and the lasting

I don’t know how to explain it, but I’m feeling incredibly…nostalgic today. Proof: went to Best Buy and bought 1) First Blood on DVD 2) Eddie and the Cruisers on DVD, and 3) “Loverboy’s Greatest Hits” on CD. …what the hell is wrong with me, anyway…?

“Congressional investigators have found that immigration fraud is now so extensive it ‘GAO will use the justice system in some misguided, legally futile attempt to go after Dick Cheney’s White House energy task force notes? When are we going to get our priorities straight?