I'm trying to reserve judgment, but there's a fundamental conflict that I just can't get around with regards to the latest Star Trek. William Shatner's James T. Kirk is one of the most compelling fictional characters ever developed, but is largely the result of an...
Month: March 2009
This (the claim that the CIA's top spy in Russia in the 1980s was a double) is interesting, but I guess I don't understand why, if Tolkachev were really working.
When I say that Jamie Kirchik is too stupid to breathe, it shouldn't be read as a suggestion that he be smothered; rather, it should be understood as an expression.
Itinerant musician and former LGM guest blogger Matt Duss was on Rachel Maddow last night:Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
The University of Kentucky does not tolerate failure. At least where basketball is concerned. Enjoy your $6 million, Billy.
Amanda discusses Saletan's latest. The column gives us the two sides of Saletan. First, we get the pro-choicer originating bog-standard ideas:This may sound strange, but I don't consider myself a.
Indeed, the Republicans probably had no idea about the derision their non-budget would receive, given the decades of precedent that any reactionary white guy in a suit could say anything and be taken seriously by the media. The problem in this case may have been...
To follow up on Duncan and Roy, one will hope that child pornography laws will be changed to exempt non-commercial self-photos of adolescents sent to other adolescents. Changing them is.
With more graphs!This "alternative budget" manages what I wouldn't have thought possible; turn the Republican policy into even more of a farce. And, yet, one has to agree that the.
Krugman questions the wisdom of the smartest person in known human history, St. Larry Summers:On Monday, Lawrence Summers, the head of the National Economic Council, responded to criticisms of the Obama administration’s plan to subsidize private purchases of toxic assets. “I don’t know of any...
In the thread about the Madoff scam a couple days ago, Weiner noted this classic analysis of various scams from Teresa Nielsen Hayden. As it happens, spending my college years.
(cf.)The most amazing part of my trip to Jack in the Box is that I didn’t walk into the restaurant intending to order a steak teriyaki bowl.After digging around beneath.