Nepal: Whom Should I Hate?

King Gyanendra? The rebels? I'm totally adrift on this whole Nepal thing. Guidance, please! Where are the neocons, the neolibertarians, and the liberal internationalists on this one? How am I supposed to tell the good guys from the bad guys if I don't know which side...

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Belated Earth Day Post

This absurdity (and here's why it's absurd) brings to mind an old nugget from P.J. O'Rourke:Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.It's a pity O'Rourke hasn't applied that insight to the global democracy crusade…

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What a Bunch of Sissies

"Mindless snark." A "cheap shot." That's how Glenn Reynolds and his sorority sisters have characterized the following blog post by Jesse Walker of Reason:The Past Is Another Planet Glenn Reynolds, writing in Reason in 1999: [O]ur current situation–with so many foreign...

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Tonight We’re Going to Argue Like It’s 1999

Jesse Walker finds a Glenn Reynolds statement from 1999 that could easily appear on Antiwar.com:[O]ur current situation – with so many foreign troop deployments that even military buffs can't keep track of them all and with wars initiated essentially on presidential...

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Peña at GWU Tuesday

Antiwar.com columnist Charles Peña will be at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University tomorrow to launch his new book, Winning the Un-War: A New Strategy for the War on Terrorism. Details are available here.

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Underlying Causes, Warbot Edition

The wimp still won't link to Antiwar.com, but today he offers an etiology of Dubya's youthful delinquency – and, apparently, his adult worldview. Under the heading "Bush Insulter Dies," James Taranto relates the following story about recently deceased Yale chaplain...

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