I use this space to vent about the various pathologies of the New York Times pretty regularly, but I'll say this for that particular: in the post-Janet "Titanic is the movie of the year" Maslin era, they've had some very good film criticism. One of the...
Month: August 2004
When I was in Montreal on Wednesday, two justices were appointed to the Canadian Supreme Court. Media coverage has focused on the fact that 1)the Canadian court now has an apparently.
In response to a request for more baseball blogging. . . Ichiro Suzuki became the first player to get 200 hits in each of his first four major league seasons.
In a coup for the blogosphere, fafblog obtains a rare interview with the President.
Once again, Muqtada Al-Sadr challenges the Occupation, and once again the confrontation ends with him still breathing. This is a terribly conceived war, and I never really held out much.
Digby, channelled by Ezra Klein, has it quite right: Imagine if the swiftees had come out with this and the public hadn't been given the full star spangled banner routine with.
I'm too lazy to find the link, but a little while ago, Matt Yglesias posted something about how he preferred Fox News to CNN, as it had more real actual news content (as comically slanted as it was). That didn't seem right to me, but...
Josh Marshall is right: The Kerry campaign can and should be all over Bush's sudden allergy to 527's. And it should be mockery. Look, as stupid as the 'flip-flop' stuff.
I'm in partial agreement with Dana Stevens on the Kerry Daily Show appearance two nights ago. Stewart was pitching not just softballs but marshmallows. Puffy interview marshmallows with rainbow sprinkles on.
A broken clock is right twice a day, and the GOP talking point that Kerry isn't running much on his actual governing record (not that Bush is, either) has some truth to it. Senators are problematic as presidential candidates because the kind of compromises and...
I was planning about blogging about this, as I took Harper's to read on the plane to Montreal and was dismayed to see that the Lapham essay was extra-long, hence taking.
David Neiwart is a really smart and interesting guy. His journalism is almost always worth reading. His book on the patriot (read: militia) movement here in the Pacific Northwest is.