I simply can't urge you strongly enough to read the article in the most recent Vanity Fair about Florida 2000--it's just magnificent, clearly putting inside baseball from the court's clerks in the larger political context. Courtesy of the superb SCOTUS blog, you can (and must) read...
Month: September 2004
Amazing how the red-blue lingo has found its way into our political discourse. Seems reflective of a horse-race mentality, one that excludes most states from any consideration whatsoever, and concentrates.
Although I can't say that I completely agree with his argument, David Neiwart's series on fascism in America is a must read. If you haven't taken a look, please do..
From Erik Loomis at Alterdestiny: I'd happily trade Mexico Bill O'Reilly for 5000 immigrants. Yes, but do you think that Mexico would make that deal? I'd trade Bill O'Reilly to Mexico for a taco.
Matt has some observations on The Empire Strikes Back. I largely concur. From the same source, some exhaustive research concluding that the Empire would easily destroy the United Federation of Planets.
Lots of interesting stuff on voting today. In Ohio, the Republicans are trying to get new voter registration thrown out due to a technicality involving paper weight. In Florida, Publius has the.
A brilliant post by Jeanne D'Arc about the staggeringly dishonest bait-and-switch being pulled by hawks who 1)strongly favor intervention in the Sudan, and 2)wish to remain hack Bush apologists. Very difficult to pull off, since Bush hasn't intervened in Sudan and shows no sign of doing...
Bob Harris on the terrorist threats that still threaten this great land. As long as Air Supply can cross borders with immunity, we might as well install bin Laden in.
For your Sunday afternoon amusement, see s.z.--who finds better wingnuttery than anyone--analyze Lisa Wechel's fascinating thoughts on sex ed. and the gays. Call me old-fashioned, but I would prefer finding out.
As he prepares to break George Sisler's record, I thought I would celebrate by passing along a remarkable junk stat. Bill James developed a series of tests that attempted to predict whether a player would make the hall-of-fame. One is called the Hall-of-Fame Monitor, which...
The latest embarrassing hackwork of the Instarube reminds me of this gem from the Crooked Timber archives about the National Review, which has been flogging the Rather story to an even more remarkable.
We need to revisit part of LTC Smith's Weekly Standard article: Historical apologists say that the Japanese were "forced" to attack us because we were strangling their trade in Asia. Sound.