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* Matt Labash visits Detroit.
* Patrick Cockburn demystifies Deep Throat.
* Daniel McCarthy reviews the career of a quasi-libertarian senator.
* Yasheng Huang reconsiders the sources of China's economic growth.
* The perils of Godwin's Law.
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jimmydageek|12.23.08 @ 8:40AM|#
cockburn - deepthroat
someone has his mind in the gutters this morning!
|12.23.08 @ 9:34AM|#
That Labash piece took me completely by surprise. Not the sort of thing I ever would have expected to see in the Weekly Standard.
Jesse Walker|12.23.08 @ 10:23AM|#
Not the sort of thing I ever would have expected to see in the Weekly Standard.
Labash specializes in those.
robc|12.23.08 @ 10:28AM|#
Jesse,
The (common) misapplication of Godwin's Law makes that xkcd less funny. This is my favorite.
Jesse Walker|12.23.08 @ 11:11AM|#
He could do a sequel where Mike Godwin pops out and explains that his law is descriptive, not prescriptive, thus allowing the Allies to win WW2.
|12.23.08 @ 11:36AM|#
Here's a thought.
The firemen in Detroit should concentrate on preventing the uncontrolled spread of fires, while allowing abandoned eyesores to burn to the ground.
|12.23.08 @ 1:27PM|#
Incidentally, folks can check out Charlie LeDuff's website for several of the articles Labash mentions. It was actually after someone sent me a link to the "Flight of the Dead" story that I began to realize just how much of LeDuff's work I'd read and enjoyed.
Anon
|12.23.08 @ 1:39PM|#
Also, from the McCarthy review:
"He won acquittal for a woman who had shot her husband dead, in full view of witnesses, at a card table."
There is no further context given for this statement. In the context of the article it is clearly meant to be laudatory. But since I read Balko, I immediately thought it was one of those weird logic puzzles, where the answer is he was holding a dog.
Anon