"I'm waiting for pro-life voters to remember this guy named John McCain," says Yglesias. Relatedly, Tom Schaller lays out the case that McCain could be the Republican Kerry, the guy who slips up the middle when the frontrunner implodes.There are a couple things to be...
Month: December 2007
Via Plumer, Adam Liptak discusses the case of a 20-year-old in Florida serving life without parole for lending some friends his car. What's particularly useful in the article is that.
Searching around in a hurry for some reading material for the gym, I found an issue of Esquire on my magazine pile, and came across this from Certified Teller of.
Megan stakes out her preference:I believe that just as there are Elvis people and Beatles people, there are Rowling people and there are Tolkien people. Sure, you may enjoy both, but you're always going to prefer one to the other. So one of the other...
Stephen Metcalf hits back at Saletan, and leaves a mark:The crux of Saletan's pieces was his Liberal Creationist analogy. The analogy is hopeless along several competing dimensions, but it reminded.
For the last two years, we have justified putting a missile defense system in Eastern Europe explicitly around the threat of Iranian ballistic missiles. In addition to the extraordinary financial.
It's not at all unusual for me to change my opinions of Coen brothers' films on repeated viewings; I like The Big Lebowski and Intolerable Cruelty more each time I see them, while O' Brother and Fargo have dropped (although not precipitously) with time. So...
So the British schoolteacher in Sudan -- the teddy bear idolater -- has been released and pardoned on charges of insulting Islam. Not having followed the case at all, I'm.
We've all got to just face facts: we have lost the drug war. In a lengthy article in Rolling Stone, Ben Wallace-Wells tells us why. In short, after Escobar was.
Franklin Foer has officially withdrawn his support for the reporting of Scott Beauchamp. I'm not terribly surprised with how this turned out, having thought from the beginning that the stories had a certain...Glassian quality about them. It still hasn't been proven that Beauchamp has a...
As if the high prices and the fact that I have the greenmarket and Chelsea Market nearby weren't enough, they go and totally misunderstand a basic tenet of Jewish eating..
Via Ann, Megan Carpentier finds that the "Medicare program spent $450 each on about 47,000" penis pumps, although "Medicaid (which serves low income Americans) only covers abortions in the case.