I promise that the name of this blog will not be changed to "Scott replies to Matthew Yglesias posts about judicial policy-making," but since I promised (threatened?) a legal defense of Roe v. Wade a couple of months ago before being derailed by grading and the flu,...
Month: January 2005
In honor of MLK day, David Ehrenstein has a great post on John F. Kennedy's (The "F" stands for "It's never the right time") attempts to strenuously avoid any political risk.
There are two major potential drawbacks to litigation as a strategy. One--that it is particularly likely to generate a backlash--I recently discussed. The other is captured by Matthew Yglesias's "fat.
It's a shame that I have never heard of this before, because it sounds like the greatest thing ever. The idea for pairing Buckley and the unpredictable Vidal had come from Buckley himself, albeit in a back-handed manner. The network had asked him to name a...
It's not every day that major bloggers are discussing the subject of my dissertation research, so I suppose I'll dive in to the discussion between Nathan Newman and Kevin Drum. This is.
Kevin Drum, Matthew Yglesias and Andrew Sullivan are largely untroubled by the fact that we've been carrying out covert operations in Iran in order to figure out the best targets for.
I probably shouldn't bother. . . LTC Tim Ryan has a column in the World Tribune excoriating the US media for not reporting the good news in Iraq. The jist is that the media are responsible for some considerable portion of the increasing strength of the...
The fallacy Scott identifies in the post immediately below needs a pithy, clever name or acronym (I'm bad at this sort of thing--suggestions?), and the community of liberals needs to.
Matthew Yglesias points us to a Michael Lind article about how the Dems would win if they pandered more to middle-class suburbanites, and identifies a major problem pretty much endemic to.
Over the break I happened to screen Mystic River, which a friend wanted to see, and it holds up really well. I'm even tempted to make a half-defense of the Lady Macbeth scene, which on re-viewing seemed to be intended not to explain why Penn acted as...
Sadly, No! points us to a typically tragi-comic exchange in which our president, once again, demonstrates his inability to remember the various twists and turns in language manipulation, this time.
I suspected that the NY media would go further than Yglesias's throwaway comment after the terrific Jets/Steelers game (congrats to frequent commenter gmack!) yesterday in turning Jet kicker Doug Brien into.