Rick Moran: But I cannot leave this subject [the Marcotte/McEwen phony witch hunt] without examining the role of those of us on the right who flogged this story into the mainstream media and may have cost Marcotte her job. Certainly our motives lacked nobility. I...
Month: February 2007
What I really don't get about this is in what sense the actual anatomical term "vagina" could be more offensive than its slang replacement. (Evidently, there would seem to be.
File this under "I'm rubber, you're glue."Hey, at least he apologized for calling the AP "careless hacks."In other TIDOS Yankee news, I'll also note that in this post, which Scott.
Has it really been two years since his self-immolation? Yglesias solemnly celebrates the occasion:Got it. So we have a prediction, along with the insinuation that Professor Cole is a terrorist whereas Goldberg is a patriot. Obviously, Goldberg's prediction was incredibly wrong. The prediction, of course,...
Ah, first Treason-In-Defense-of-Slavery Yankee shared his pensees on civility, and now self-appointed protector of online integritude Josh Trevino has weighed in. Sure one could--and somebody probably will--note the cherry-picking worthy.
Shorter Bob Owens: The fact that Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan oppose using state coercion to enforce reactionary conceptions of human sexuality, sometimes using language that should only be used.
Nick Turse has a fine discussion of the disastrous role that the Air Force is playing in the war in Iraq. The contribution of the Air Force is intentionally understated. Turse concentrates on the most secretive aspects of the bombing campaign in Iraq, pointing out...
Atrios beat me to it, but given all the talk recently who people who use spurious accusations of anti-Semitism as cover for nutty foreign policy views it seems worth noting.
Shorter Ole Perfesser: Because Nancy Pelosi is some kind of prima donna, she is morally responsible for the degradation of the climate. (Snicker snicker.) But since my position on global.
A very important point made by GFR:No one wants to admit this. But Josh is right. If our future were truly at stake -- if we really, really had to win in Iraq -- we would never stand for the president's piddling surge proposal, because...
Having been accused of running a propaganda mill here, allow me to point out some points of agreement with political opponents. Kaus on Joe Klein:In the same 2003 interview, Klein.
Max Boot jumps on the Boer War bandwagon, explaining calmly that what we need is such things as many more people rounded up and held without charges, although he's careful.