Monday, December 11, 2006
Old Conventions Die Hard (10:26 PM) - Tyler at New Hampshire Green muses on the inaptitude of the Geneva Conventions to modern guerilla combatants. Although I am not certain they themselves have failed so much as the international legal mechanism, namely our obligation to honor the Geneva…
Times on Muslims Saving Jews in World War II (07:30 PM) - The centerpiece story in The Sunday Times Magazine—this is the Times of London we’re talking about—was, this past weekend, a report on Muslims as the saviors of european Jews condemned by the German government. Does one even need to ask?…
The Rock Revolution Continues (01:23 PM) - The Right Brothers have just released their fourth album, “No Apologies,” and since the fellas—who were nice enough to send me a copy of the new album—are blogosphere mainstays, I thought I’d jot a few things down about the new…