The oft-reliable Yglesias is off his head:What do sports fans do here on the West Coast? You've gotten Eastern Conference playoff games starting at 4PM. You've got NFL games starting at 10 AM. I'm on vacation, so whatever, but this is madness. Sure, sure on...
Month: April 2007
Karen Tumulty has an account of Carhart II that fits squarely within the extremely annoying pox-on-all-their-houses genre endemic to media coverage of the subject. First, she has to claim that.
Shorter TIDOS Yankee (and commenters): "Though I was originally concerned when I read John Derbyshire's manly boasts about how he'd act differently than the Virginia Tech victims, a week's sober.
I think she'll go far!
Rebecca Traister interviews Jessica Valenti, who discusses her new book Full Frontal Feminism (available at fine booksellers everywhere!)
Sam Dagher at the CSM has a good article on the potential detrimental effect of having large numbers of US troops in close quarters with Iraqi civilians. Invariably, in a.
Just my imagination, or are there a lot of people dying lately?The Best and the Brightest is an outstanding book; I haven't yet read War in a Time of Peace, but I have it and I'll probably dig in eventually. His baseball work was full...
Interesting; I've always thought of Bernie Shaw's death penalty question to Mike Dukakis as more of a high fastball than a spitball. Dukakis could (and did) strike out on the.
James Buchanan, arguably the worst chief executive in American history, was born on this date in 1791. The only president to hail from Pennsylvania, Buchanan stood for nearly everything the.
1931-2007. He got drunk and fell off a bridge once. Then he presided over the final wreckage of his country. If anyone ever wants evidence of what the two worst economic models of the 20th century -- Soviet communism and Washington neoliberalism -- can do...
The federal GOP's social and economic model Mississippi, as some of you know, is one of the more than 20 states with latent abortion bans that would come into effect.
Ugh. At least it could have been a quick execution, not an ugly 2 overtime job. It would have been a temporary stay with a hearing in front of Scalia.