Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2825
June 23, 2010
The Animal That Masturbates
Humans lead the pack:
So why don't monkeys and apes masturbate even nearly as much ashumans? It's a rarity even among low status male nonhuman primates thatfrustratingly lack sexual access to females–in fact, the few observedincidents seem to be with dominant males. And why haven't moreresearchers noticed such an obvious difference with potentiallyenormous significance for understanding the evolution of humansexuality? After all, it's been nearly 60 years since Alfred Kinseyfirst reported...
McChrystal Out; COIN Stays
With Petraeus now running the Afghan "surge", we are back to square one: an impossible and contradictory war that requires permanent occupation to work and twelve months to succeed. Ambers, reporting the view from the White House, says it was a question of three strikes and he was out. It wasn't the insubordination; it was the indiscipline:
If there is any pattern here, it is not one of insubordination but of an acute deafness to institutional politics, a condition exacerbated by McChrystal's...
Foreign Policy By Racial Affinity
A John Derbyshire classic:
"At some level, I'll agree, this is not our business.North of five million people have been slaughtered in the Congo this pasttwelve years, and nobody much (no, not me—how about you?) has lost a winkof sleep over it ... [But:] the Congo is nothing to me. Israel is something to me.It's an outpost of my civilization, organized on principles I agree with,inhabited by people I could live at ease with. They defend themselves, their borders, their interests, with the kind...
Fighting Palinism
After the Palin fiasco, it's good to see journalists demanding answers:
And pointing out that a candidate won't grant interviews:
Keep it up, guys. Don't give in.
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Joe Barton. Republican.
Yes, they talk a good game. But Barton will keep his top Republican spot on the House Energy Committee. More conservatives are following Rush Limbaugh's lead. And Steve King is on board:
"I think there will be a few that, like me, will agree with JB's words, and his description, and there will be a lot of others that privately agree with what he said."
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How Does Obama See The War?
Joyner is basically where I am:
My takeaway from all this was that President Obama had come tobelieve, as had I, that the very ambitious set of goals articulated byhis predecessor were unattainable but that he believed saying that waspolitically untenable. Since he had campaigned on Afghanistan as a"war of necessity" that the Bush administration had under-resourced topursue a "war of choice" in Iraq, he couldn't very well say, meremonths into his term, that Afghanistan wasn't worth it after...
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