In addition to what Roy says, I'd like to highlight this odd part of Megan McArdle's counter to Ezra's attack on Giuliani's health plan:Moreover, as a class, the old and sick have some culpability in their ill health. They didn't eat right or excercise; they...
Month: August 2007
Lots of competition in this category, I imagine, but this is a unique species of awful:ANAHEIM, Calif., Aug. 20 — According to local legend, the cliff swallows are supposed to.
The story about the Bush administration pre-empting states from expanding healthcare programs for children reminds me that I forgot to comment on the latest Michael Gerson joint. To follow up.
In Daniel Lazare's smart and biting review of books about America's incarceration culture, appearing in last week's Nation, he highlights an incendiary argument from Marie Gottschalk's book, The Prison and the Gallows (which I have not yet read but which is on my Amazon wishlist....
Via Matt, Mike Crowley:The Anti Defamation League has fired its New England regional direction for insisting that the group recognize as genocide the circa-1915 slaughter of perhaps a million Armenians.
. . . She had a heart?I suppose there's a good argument to be made that if Helmsley had been a man, her crimes wouldn't have earned more than a.
[Image Removed]Under the headline "White House Acts to Limit Health Plan for Children," I just read this gem:The Bush administration, continuing its fight to stop states from expanding the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program, has adopted new standards that would make it much more difficult...
After reading the latest complaint from VDH about the Pussification of the Republic, Atlas nearly loses grip on her breakfast martini:And while it seems painfully obvious, we have recklessly abandoned.
I'm frankly not sure even what to say to Josh Patashnik's response to my post from earlier today. Essentially, he concedes the merits of the arguments Matt and I made.
Tristam Shandy points us to this extraordinarily weak piece of media criticism from walking punchline Pajamas Media. As TS points out, the biggest problem is that it's mostly unfounded speculation. But there are a couple more gems. I like this one:Let’s go into the fact-checking...
One need not investigate the methods used in this study to know that they're flawed:Our results suggest that having participants listen to songs by AC/DC in which Brian Johnson served.
...or so Peter Baker would have you believe. That's not quite fair to Baker, but it's not far off, either. Baker allows that slashed budgets and "unforeseen" events have wounded.