Tony Blair speaks at the opening press conference at the World Economic Forum January 23, 2007 in Davos Switzerland. Participants have arrived in Davos for the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, which starts today. By Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images.
A story of some art history buzz-killers.
Jennifer Maestre’s biomorphic pencil sculptures are oddly alluring. More fun with writing implements here.
The debate probably helped. Could the Clintons come in third? You never know.
The Fox News bigot digs in deeper.
Bob Reich adds his voice to the chorus:
It’s not fair – indeed, it’s demeaning – for a former President to say things that are patently untrue (such as Obama’s anti-war position is a “fairy tale”) or to insinuate that Obama is injecting race into the race when the former President is himself doing it.
The Clintons appear to have removed the most egregiously deceptive radio ad from the air.
"John McCain is Bob Dole minus the charm, conservatism and youth," – Ann Coulter, Human Events.
A geek laments:
When arguments are made with the goal of convincing people who lack the expertise to evaluate them, they are bound to fall short of what it would take to move the field forward. What Pinker ends up representing is an unfortunate fact of life in disciplines where so little is known with any certainty: often the rewards for winning arguments are much greater than the rewards for being right.
It’s McCain, stupid.
"That Nazism and contemporary liberalism both promote healthy living is as meaningless a finding as that bloody marys and martinis may both be made with gin. Repeatedly, Goldberg fails to recognize a reductio ad absurdum. He tells us that Himmler bemoaned the Christian persecution of witches, just like Wiccan feminists do today, that Hitler once described his doctrine as "reality-based," just like today’s progressives describe theirs, and that Mussolini was quite smart "by the standards of liberal intellectuals today." In no case does Goldberg uncover anything more ominous than a coincidence," – Austin Bramwell, American Conservative.
