Roger Ailes reads MoDo so you don't have to:Maureen Dowd embarassed herself again today with a column comparing Tony Blair and Tony Soprano. Did you know they both have the same first name? And that's just the beginning of the comparative fun! It seems that...
Month: June 2007
Why is Camille Paglia being given space by Salon (in 2007!)?Essentially every sentence in the thing is vacuous idiocy, of course, but this is particularly remarkable:Whatever his high ideals, Gore.
Spoilers aplenty ahead, although if you haven't isolated yourself from all media for the past four days I can't imagine anything here will be surprising. I think it was a.
While I find Digby's logic regarding a pardon of Libby quite compelling (it seems unlikely that Bush will pay much of a price for a pardon, and it would probably even improve his standing with the true believers), I have to agree with Ezra and...
Thers, back from scoring AP tests, is on the case.
Long-time friend of L G & M Lindsay Beyerstein has joined In These Times as a national political reporter. You can check out her first piece here.
Some high comedy from Benjamin Lambert, who was shown the door in the Democratic primary after trying to save the flailing campaign of racist airhead George Allen (and, hence, to keep the Senate in Republican hands):Lambert said, "I have no hard feelings. We ran a...
Patrick Di Justo unearthed a 1943 Army handbook for US soldiers stationed in Iraq. Highlights: NEVER discuss religion or politics or women with Moslems. Don't stare at anyone. Remember the.
I was busy Monday and forgot to mention Krugman's great column. Bob Somerby summarizes for the non Select:“Authenticity” became the press corps’ favorite buzz-word in 1999, along with its silly.
The Nation on Hunter College and immigration.
No More Mister Nice Blog poses a question:According to Christopher Hitchens, what in the world today "stinks -- indeed it reeks -- of whatever horrible, buried, vicarious impulse underlies kiddie.
Andrew Ferguson....seriously, the "he doesn't have footnotes [because he has endnotes]!" routine? I can understand why Ferguson did it--he's a hack, is apparently entirely comfortable with comically transparent dissembling, and.