Jesse Walker | December 23, 2008
* 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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cockburn - deepthroat
someone has his mind in the gutters this morning!
That Labash piece took me completely by surprise. Not the sort of thing I ever would have expected to see in the Weekly Standard.
Not the sort of thing I ever would have expected to see in
the Weekly Standard.
Labash specializes in those.
Jesse,
The (common) misapplication of Godwin's Law makes that xkcd less
funny. This is my favorite.
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.
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.
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
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
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