The Bristol Palin thing shows, above all else, that Nixonian resentment remains very much at the forefront of modern conservatism. 1)Stuffing the ballot boxes for a crappy reality show, 2)in order to piss of liberals, 3)despite the fact that the vast majority of "liberal elitists"...
Month: November 2010
I suspect that the crew of the Cheonan might dispute this headline from Reuters: North Korea shells South in fiercest attack in decades I suppose we run into definitional issues,.
Bill James (subscription required): It is the people who bad-mouth statistics who inevitably start spewing them. The people who tell you why you can't trust statistics are the people who.
This is mildly alarming: North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire on Tuesday after dozens of shells fired from the North struck a South Korean island near the countries’ disputed maritime border, South Korean military officials said. Two South Korean soldiers were killed, 15 were...
All get two minutes for looking so good.
William Saletan on the idiocy of Airport-Scanner Opt-Out Day.
The first six are all superb choices.
Is it wrong for me to feel untouched by this plight? Unless your parents are paying for it, I really see very, very little justification for pouring money into a.
... just another immigrant trying to take a job away from a hard working American.
I actually don't think it's surprising that conservatives have suddenly decided that privacy and dignity should be given some weight in the War on Terror (TM). The problem is that the awful new TSA program isn't arbitrary enough for them. As I've said before, Robert...
Holy Joe Lieberman.
Ireland has been a teabagger laboratory, going with a program of austerity to deal with a financial crisis. How's that been working out? Ireland’s economy shrank 7.1 percent last year.