Glenn's reaction to the NSA domestic data trolling story:UPDATE: Of course, if we'd had a terror attack since 9/11 and didn't have a program like that, people would be complaining.Right. If people would complain about the absence of something in the wake of a terrorist...
Month: May 2006
Hey, maybe there's an upside to all this Da Vinci Code nonsense. If it drives James Dobson and his ilk batty, then who am I to complain?Of course, I still.
Adam Kotsko asks:It's indisputable that the US has superior firepower and has for quite a long time -- in fact, although I'm willing to be corrected here, I seem to.
I'm tickled that the New York Times Book Review assessment of the five best novels of the last twenty-five years aligns so closely with my own preferences. Here's the top five:1. Beloved, Tony Morrison2. Underworld, Don Delillo3. Rabbit Angstrom, John Updike4. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy5....
The right-wing of the blogosphere has become apoplectic about this post from All Things Conservative. The Corner, Powerline, Polipundit, Instapundit, and the inimitable Mickey Kaus have all seen fit to.
Michael Luttig, the arch-conservative 4CA judge whose exasperation with the Bush administration's transparent attempts to avoid judicial review may have cost him a Supreme Court nomination, has resigned. It's not.
My answer to MMF's question, alas, is that I think it's highly unlikely that the Dems will take back the House in 2006, even if the polls continue to be favorable. Sophisticated computer gerrymandering means that very, very few seats are in play no matter...
Reading about the recent scandal in which HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson refused contracts to firms for partisan reasons, I was wondering--in addition to the obvious violations of sound government and.
Apropos of the Pixies reunion tour that I managed to miss out on at both ends, a friend this weekend noted how glad she was that the tour was not.
Keith Hernandez on Phillie hurler Brett Myers' tendency to get rattled on the mound: "He's not Warren Zevon's Excitable Boy, but..."The annoying thing about Hernandez's recent sexist comments is that when not engaging in wingnuttery about women in the dugout he and Gary Cohen really...
Wow. The gentlemen at Truth Laid Bear have done some good work with the Ecosystem.
Went and saw United 93 on Saturday. There's no doubt that the film is technically proficient and well paced. What surprised me, especially given my reaction to the preview, was.