Yglesias writes, in reference to the death of Sean Taylor:It's best to follow actual news stories on actual news sitesAt the risk of using the tragedy of Taylor's death to discuss a meta-blogging issue, this position on the news seems to be a massive point...
Month: November 2007
People are talking about Stephanie Coontz's NY Times Opinion column today, in which she advocates that we take back marriage from the control of the states. Here's the nub of.
Anyone else think from this photo that perhaps the meeting on the environment didn't go so well?Related story here. It's worth noting that Bush didn't host Gore by choice --.
Professional concern troll Naomi Wolf explains why the kids aren't down with civics these days. The piece is mostly an infomercial for her new something-or-other -- the American Freedom Campaign for Freedom and Democracy in a Free and Democratic America -- but it also aims...
With #2 Senate Republican Trent Lott apparently set to retire, it seems worth returning again to the Dixiecrat Platform that Lott endorsed in 2002:4. We stand for the segregation of.
At this blog and in other venues, I have for a long time tried to warn America about the robot menace; the inevitable moment when robots will rise against their.
I know you won't believe this if you don't live here, but on New York talk radio Roethlisberger vs. Eli Manning is treated as if it were a serious topic for debate, when in fact it's sort of like debating about whether Houston is in...
Matt makes a good case that John C. Stennis is the worst American ever to give his name to a major capital ship. Any thoughts from our resident naval antiquarians.
The latest from the War On (Some Classes of People Who Use Some) Drugs, a/k/a where the Constitution goes to die. Wheeler does a very good job of explaining the.
Although I don't think it undermines the key point here -- it's obviously completely irrational to give the majority of federal agricultural subsidies to meat and diary, and most of the remaining subsidies to things other than vegetables -- GFR makes a good point about...
WTVQ 36 Action News! Hopefully they'll put up the clip; I went with the jacket and no tie to emphasize my academicitude. They contrasted me with a very nice old.
It's no surprise at this point to learn that the prison door is revolving. Recent studies show that up to 2/3 of those recently released from prisons are rearrested within.