As Amanda said on Twitter, the one thing you have to give the Minnesota Republicans in their highly instructive decision to make an ad based on perhaps the stupidest conservative web meme ever is that "She's A Lady" certainly is an accurate summary of the...
Month: August 2010
Shorter Andrew Malcolm: "I'm going to pretend that the Senate works according to majoritarian rules, and then I'm going to pretend that people like Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman are.
Huh: The win set a pair of season highs for the momentum-gaining Reds: It was their sixth straight, and it propped their lead to 3 1/2 games over the Cardinals.
This is an admirable post by Matt Yglesias. What I especially like is his willingness to conclude that his mistake in judgment on a specific issue was a product not merely of idiosyncratic circumstances, but of a structurally flawed way of thinking about the world,...
My official reaction to the indictment of Roger Clemens is that I don't like perjury charges that are an outgrowth from "OMG baseball players use different kinds of PEDs than.
In the previous post, I called the transition from the scene at the firm to the one in Draper's hall a "wipe," but that's not quite right. The camera pans.
Shorter Verbatim Sarah Palin: "Dr.Laura:don't retreat...reload! (Steps aside bc her 1st Amend.rights ceased 2exist thx 2activists trying 2silence"isn't American,not fair")." When I said that when a winger talk show host asserted that private individuals criticizing her racist remarks were violating her First Amendment rights she...
The odd thing about Dean's tenure as a liberal standard-bearer is that he really wasn't all that liberal; certainly, a good argument can be made that Kerry's record was more.
Shorter neo-neocon: "Everything changed for me on September 11. I used to consider myself a Democrat, but thanks to 9/11, I think Barack Obama hates America and may well be.
Geoff Forden wrote a fantastic post on the technical challenges that the Chinese DF-21 anti-ship ballistic missile system faces, and poses. Make sure to read the comments as well.
This is the way the war ends. Grasping the precise semantic distinction between "combat troops" and "the 50,000 remaining U.S. troops that will go on combat missions with Iraqi troops.
Among nuggets of wisdom about social networking tools that I've picked up under the tutelage of one Stanley Wasserman is this: not only can you network electronically, but now so.