Sunday, July 09, 2006
The Electioneering Begins (08:15 PM) - The e-mail reprinted in full below was mass-mailed on Thursday, July 6 to the members of the Dartmouth Class Officers Assocation by that association’s president. The subject line is, “Support for the Alumni Constitution,” referring to the controversial proposed constitutional…
Embracing its dhimmitude, BBC bans “dhimmi” (08:12 PM) - At the world news website of the British Broadcasting Company, you cannot submit a comment to a news article—they call it the ‘Have Your Say’ section—with the word ‘dhimmi’ in it. It is automatically censored. Because ‘dhimmi’ is offensive to…
The Prepositional ‘Absent’ (03:49 PM) - It appears that both Ann Althouse and Sasha Volokh attach something lawerly and distasteful to the use of the word absent as a preposition. I think it sounds nice that way. UPDATE: Sasha Volokh corrects me. He did not make…
I Won’t Dance, Madame, With You (09:51 AM) - In 1892, a man called T.A. Faulkner had a wonderful piece of polemic against the act of dancing, called, “From the Ball-Room to Hell”.But let us turn our attention again to the dancers, at two o’clock next morning. This is…
New Delhi’s Fully-Cocked Test (08:22 AM) - It is a testing pile-on, and here comes India, initiating a test launch this morning of its new nuclear-capable Agni III missile. “The launch of the missile, with a range of 1,865 miles, is seen as a routine test, and…
Mahmoud, Once More, With Feeling (07:34 AM) - The state executive stands before a crowd of the like-minded—brought together, as have been rooms with similar intents in decades past, 1) by religion and 2) by a desire to impose that religion on all, or else deprive the others…
A Cute Photograph for a Sunday Morning (07:13 AM) - The below picture moved on the Reuters wire on June 30. It shows a little mouse hitching a ride on the back of a little frog. ‘Twas in Lucknow, India that this picture was taken, so perhaps you now understand…
The Special Alliance of English-Speaking Peoples (12:38 AM) - Taylor Owen wonders if the special relationship between the English and the Americans, which has carried humanity through much, isn’t holding together so well….
Even if North Korea Can’t Get Its Missiles Up… (12:28 AM) - D’apres this fascinating (and free) Wall Street Journal backgrounder, it can still sell working missiles to other nations. North Korea’s biggest customers for missiles are, in descending order: Iran, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Pakistan….