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Thanks For A Great Week

Andrew should be back any minute now... Listed below are links to weblogs that reference '' ...

From PATRICK APPEL, Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish,  24 Feb 2008

Oscar Night

The point is not whether there are bad motion pictures or even whether the average motion picture is bad, but whether the motion picture is an artistic medium of sufficient dignity and accomplishment to be treated with respect by the people who control ...

From PATRICK APPEL, Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish,  24 Feb 2008

A Poem For Sunday

The snow melts, exposing what was buried there all winter: tricycles and fire engines and all sizes of children waiting in boots and yellow mackintoshes for the mud. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference '' ...

From PATRICK APPEL, Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish,  24 Feb 2008

Face Of The Day

A dog is pictured backstage before Italian fashion house AB Soul show during the Autumn/Winter 2008/2009 women's collections at Milan Fashion Week on February 23, 2008. By Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images. Listed below are links to weblogs that ...

From PATRICK APPEL, Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish,  23 Feb 2008

Thinking About Embargos

In sum, since the 1980s the EU has been trying, like the United States since the 1960s, to get rid of a regime it disapproves of through impoverishment; a regime, moreover, which, unlike Castro's, practises a tolerable version of democracy, and has ...

From PATRICK APPEL, Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish,  23 Feb 2008

Chocolate

Both the Mayans and Aztecs believed the cacao bean had magical, or even divine, properties, suitable for use in the most sacred rituals of birth, marriage and death. According to Chloe Doutre-Roussel's book The Chocolate Connoisseur, Aztec sacrifice ...

From PATRICK APPEL, Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish,  23 Feb 2008

Bolton And The UN

Bolton is not a neocon. His political passions were ignited in his teens by Barry Goldwater, and he has always been a "libertarian conservative." He thinks that "our emphasis must be more on liberty than democracy... the first being freedom from ...

From PATRICK APPEL, Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish,  23 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Barry Goldwater,  United Nations,  George W. Bush

The Superdelegate Gap

Clinton still leads among superdelegates 241 to 181, according to the AP survey. But her total is down two in the past two weeks, while Obama's is up 25. ...

From PATRICK APPEL, Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish,  23 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Bill Clinton,  Barack Obama

Global Warming And The Culture Of Fear

I think Elizabeth Weise may have inadvertently proven part of Peter Suderman's thesis (either that, or we are in even bigger trouble than I thought): As climate change warms the nation, giant Burmese pythons could colonize one-third of the USA, from ...

From PATRICK APPEL, Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish,  23 Feb 2008

Saturday Morning Reading

...breathless warnings about rising religious fervor and conflicts to come ignore two basic facts. First, many areas of the world are experiencing a decline in religious belief and practice. Second, where religions are flourishing, they are also ...

From PATRICK APPEL, Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish,  23 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Blaise Pascal

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