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The frog in Sarko’s bread-and-milk
The always-excellent Arthur Goldhammer on Nicolas Sarkozy’s latest appearance: Sarkozy had another one of his marathon chats with les tribunes du peuple, or what passes for such in the media… Continue reading
0 CommentsA Cook’s Bookshelf
Megan offers her annual Christmas cooking recommendations. Kit here; manuals here. As usual, there’s lots of good stuff. But permit me to offer some supplementary ideas on the matter of… Continue reading
2 CommentsToo late for an old dog…
An interesting but worthless column from Jackie Ashley. "It won’t be easy for Gordon Brown to dig himself out of the hole he has fallen into in recent weeks. But… Continue reading
0 CommentsPizza Wars Continued…
Yeah, so Megan can’t find New York style pizza in Washington. Well, I can’t find Scottish pizza here either. I forgot to ask earlier if any readers know of anywhere… Continue reading
1 CommentFlying in China and Japan
James Fallows has a splendid snapshot (ha!) of the differences between Japan and China: With usual caveats against sweeping generalization, what this made me think was: Japan is all about… Continue reading
0 CommentsEngland in Sri Lanka; Pakistan in India
Cricket Housekeeping: 1. Since this post making the case that Shane Warne is, indisputably, a greater cricketer than Muttiah Muralitharan it’s only fair to note that Murali had the chance… Continue reading
4 CommentsWhat is the Chief End of Man, anyway?
Kieran Healy wants to know how Newsweek can think a line can be fine and blurry: Growing Up Giuliani: Rudy Giuliani was raised to understand that fine, blurry line between… Continue reading
0 CommentsFirst they take Canberra, then they take…?
Melanie Philips, I’m afraid, continues to show signs of becoming Britain’s answer to David Horowitz. Her latest salvo culminates in this absurdity: Annapolis is America’s Munich — and Israel is… Continue reading
3 CommentsIn Search of the Perfect Pie
As any newcomer to DC must, Megan McArdle bemoans the relative lack of decent pizza in Washington: To a lifelong New Yorker, there is no other sort of pizza than… Continue reading
6 CommentsDoes Mark Halperin Have What It Takes?
Mercy me. Mark Halperin makes a lateish run for Most Incriminating Column of the Year with this entry, published in today’s New York Times in which he laments how terrible… Continue reading
3 CommentsBush, Ahmadinejad and The Economist
This is the sort of thing that reminds me why I enjoy The Economist‘s under-appreciated sense of humour: George Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are both deeply religious, referring frequently to… Continue reading
0 CommentsRomney’s Plan for Washington
Andy Ferguson’s article on the ghastliness of presidential campaign books isn’t quite vintage Ferguson. for one thing he ignores the awkward fact that by all accounts Barack Obama did actually… Continue reading
4 CommentsGuess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
My friend James Forsyth picks up on another of my favoured non-trivial campaign trivia questions*: Barack Obama got the question about who he would invite to his ideal dinner party… Continue reading
9 CommentsRon Pauls Libertarian Revolution
Isaac Chotiner links to Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch’s splendid piece on libertarianism and calls it pretty absurd: I have no idea what most citizens think about smoking bans and… Continue reading
0 CommentsA New and Benign Independence Day!
Look, one of the charming aspects of Ron Paul’s Presidential campaign is its amateur nature. By which I mean, of course, the puppyish and extrovert enthusiasm of his supporters. Which… Continue reading
2 CommentsThere’ll Always Be an England…
Not to intrude into private grief or anything, but how can you children not be amused by this? Croatia rose to the occasion in their crucial Euro 2008 defeat of… Continue reading
2 CommentsTurkey Day Blogging Forecast: Light
Happy Thanksgiving, people. It’s a testament to the enduring optimism – and essential good-nature – of the American people that they should schedule (or have scheduled for them) two family… Continue reading
1 CommentHuckabees Chuck Norris Ad (Video)
Via Garance, here is by far and away the best advertisement of this interminable presidential election campaign: UPDATE: Daniel Larison makes the good point that Huckabee’s two word plan for… Continue reading
1 CommentThe Experience Primary
Probably the strongest experience I have in foreign relations is the fact that I spent four years living overseas when I was a child in southeast Asia. ~Barack Obama I… Continue reading
1 CommentIf Saturday’s events in Glasgow (and Tel Aviv) confirmed anything it was the primacy of international football as a communal sporting experience. Rugby and cricket (my first two loves) have… Continue reading
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