Galley Slaves

David Frum makes a very important point, beyond the "sexism" charge: In the first week of the battle, the White House sent out J...

Proposed: Born To Run is the greatest rock song of all time. Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend I want to guard your dreams and visio...

Let it not be said that I don't face reality. From Galley Friend L.B.: Let me stipulate that 1) I didn't see the game - have only r...

If I haven't mentioned it already, please do go and bookmark WorldwideStandard.com , the new foreign-policy blog being run by Dan McKive...

It was a gorgeous Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas. There wasn't a cloud in the sky and a warm breeze was blowing down the Strip. I spent p...

I got a sad reminder of the paucity of anecdotal evidence on Saturday night when I went to see Serenity at the local movie palace. The show...

Serial flattery is never a one-time offense; suck-ups have an incredibly high rate of recidivism. So after seeing Harriet Miers's gushin...

From the Today Show this morning: Matt Lauer: Some are suggesting there’s a little possible sexism in the [conservative] criticism of Jud...

Just a thought from a Mike Kelly column in July of 2001. It's a reminder that this isn't the first time we've seen the "tru...

Maybe I should just turn Galley Slaves over to Patterico for the coming week. More good stuff from him here where he finds a January 1993 T...

Patterico has more good stuff, including Dan Coats defending Miers: “If great intellectual powerhouse is a qualification to be a member o...

A big welcome to Gary Andres, a wise old Washington hand (oh, he's not that old), who just launched a blog, PoliticalSherpa.com .

Level 3 is the devil.

The Wolverine Law Library has put up the complete archive of Miers's writings. To which John Lindgren says: I have read about a half ...

Paul Mirengoff gives what I consider to be the most persuasive argument for voting for Miers: My view (subject to possible revision as the...

I know, it's thin. But this anecdote is pretty excellent. Asked her favorite Justice, Harriet Miers responded "Warren." Asked...

Not that she needs to; I'll be shocked if she isn't confirmed. But Charles Krauthammer makes some good points: To serve in Congres...

This James Thayer piece on Seattle's failed monorail project (they already have one monorail, some song and dance guy convinced them th...

Bryan Curtis has a great profile of Bill Simmons up at Slate . Personally, I've always thought of Simmons as the Matt Labash of spor...

It's like before plastic surgery and after. Get rid of those wrinkles!