Someone recently recommended Tom Bissell's incineration of Robert Kaplan's literary [sic] reputation, and I can now heartily second that recommendation. For my own part, I was of the opinion that Kaplan could account for two of the most embarrassing articles ever to appear in the...
Month: December 2009
Shorter Erick Erickson: moderate reform legislation modestly increasing access to healthcare is vastly worse than the Fugitive Slave Act or Alien and Sedition Acts. Freedom!!!!1!111!One!
It's hardly news that the Huffington Post publishes a lot of garbage, but the site's affectionate regard for alternative medicine is really hard to take. Yesterday, someone named Andrea Sullivan.
Sophia Lear notes that Reebok's new campaign for their new "Easy Tone" shoes (if you haven't seen them, I don't know how to describe them -- platform runners?) includes a definitive example of assvertising. She also points us to an article that addresses a question...
Today was graduation day at Patterson. For lack of anything better to post, below is the graduation keynote that I delivered to the Spring 2009 graduates:Congratulations to the graduating class,.
...but in the series of photographs of Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and his interns that shani-o linked to this afternoon, we have:Steele and a white guySteele and a.
They understood that the best way to protect minority rights via legislation was to employ a three-step process.Step One: Create a system of legislative rules so inherently dysfunctional that nothing could be done about serious national problems until blood was on the verge of running...
Tracy Lightcap has a good comment in the thread below:I'm not so sure that there are good and bad presidents, just good and bad opportunities.I'm a big fan of Skowronek's.
In light of my recent Andrew Jackson bashing, Matt is right to note that his status as the most odious and overrated allegedly progressive president in history is far from.
Mmm.... polarization.
Both Adam Liptak and Lyle Denniston see, after Tuesday's oral arguments, a strong cross-ideological consensus (excluding John Paul Stevens) that the "honest services" statute often used to prosecute corruption cases.
Let me give all the normal apologies for light/no posting; comprehensive exams at Patterson, travel, etc. Hopefully, there will be more opportunity to post this weekend; just ran a mini-simulation.