I've been meaning to comment on the odious comments of MeMe Roth (see Lindsay and zuzu), but Professor B. beats me to it, cutting to the heart of the issue:This whole "I'm so concerned for her health!! And the health of all the impressionable girls...
Month: May 2007
Having been persuaded by several recent arguments that mocking the earnest and well-meaning artists of the world only hurts America's youth, I can only imagine what a post like this.
As Ruth Bader Ginsburg notes, the evidence of gender discrimination in the case of Ledbetter v. Goodyear, decided today by the Supreme Court, is unambiguous:Lilly Ledbetter was a supervisor at.
Estonia has been under assault: When Estonian authorities began removing a bronze statue of a World War II-era Soviet soldier from a park in this bustling Baltic seaport last month, they expected violent street protests by Estonians of Russian descent.What followed was what some here...
There's been some good Falklands blogging around the interweb-tubes of late.Alex at Yorkshire Ranter has been doing some bang-up work:Myth 1: Command?Myth 2: Maggie?Myth 3: Imperialism?Myth 4: Friends in High.
I understand that it's politically difficult to institute the kinds of policies--most importantly energy taxes--that would be necessary to substantially reduce carbon emissions. But one good first step would be.
General J.C. Christian kindly consoles Ace O. Spades, heterosexual, over the latest humiliation of the wingnutosphere's Junior Detective division:I see Greenwald is doing it to you again, and frankly, I'm disgusted by it. I mean, here we have a guy who refuses to answer his...
Rudy Giuliani, the twice-divorced ex-mayor and erstwhile drag queen of New York City, celebrates his 63rd birthday today as he marches onward in his quest to become the nation's chief.
Christy on Memorial Day, with many suggestions of what you can do to help.
Reihan Salam explains the wrongthink of...Fletch. Disappointingly, he doesn't also discuss how Spies Like Us failed because of its traitorous attacks on American military values, and how Cops and Robbersons wasn't funny because it was a subtle pre-preemption of Rudy Guliani's candidacy, but hopefully that...
The death of Andrew Bacevich's son on May 13 in Iraq was heartbreaking news for anyone who's read his work, heard him speak, or (I'm sure) known him. That he.
Huh. I never had this problem:When I was a younger lad man, there was no one around to tell me that Tom Friedman was an utter buffoon. I was in.