Archive for February, 2006
Monday, February 20th, 2006
To Err is Human
One of the annoying things about the blogospheric conspiracy-mongering about Dick Cheney’s accidental shooting of Harry Whittington is that every inconsistency is being treated as an intentional lie or evidence of a cover-up. Some of the post-hoc spin was surely designed to mislead — as in Katharine Armstrong’s initial denial that there had been any [...]
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Monday, February 13th, 2006
A matter of presentation
Are women cleaner than men? This question, subjected to a surprisingly extensive blog discussion last week, has elicited a wide range of anecdotes and claims by men that, in fact, women do more cleaning because they simply have higher standards of cleanliness. Says Ross Douthat at The American Scene:
at least some of the cleaning, folding, scrubbing [...]
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Saturday, February 4th, 2006
Earcleaning Parlors
Cousin Ted notes that he’s also been writing about the inner ear.
