You know how Tom Freidman or Matt Miller submits the same column about how we need a "radical centrist" pain caucus third party daddy to save us about twice a month? Not to be outdone, Joe Nocera is approximately the eight millionth pundit to write...
Month: October 2011
This is all a bad deal: Over the weekend, Kenyan forces entered Somalia in response to the recent kidnappings of two European tourists (one of whom has since died) and.
From the "We are presenting a united front on Greek auster... wait, France? What the fuck are you doing?" file: German industry and politicians have attacked a proposed French warship.
A commenter quickly corrects an embarrassing error I made in this post. Obviously, there is no bigger hack than Glenn Reynolds: WASHINGTON POST HIT PIECE FAIL: Marco Rubio punches back twice as hard, and even the WaPo’s own Jennifer Rubin comments: “If this is the...
Grim. And, as always, the contrast between the way we treat potential federal expenditures for useful infrastructure projects versus invasions of countries of countries that pose no threat to the.
Trainwreck Media has been pure and inevitable comedy gold from before its inception. And, yet, in its own way it's an impressive achievement, in that Reynolds and Simon seem to.
An article at the Washington Monthly by Colin Woodard distills his new book, American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, down to two to three dozen paragraphs. He outlines the historical conditions that created enduring, distinct, and in some cases...
Even for stupid government-subsidized parking structures, the taxpayer subsidized parking garage in the Bronx is a classic case of setting money on fire. But at least the subsidy went to.
Matt's two recent posts on the myth of the 2004 elections make two crucial related points: 1)the effect of presidential campaigns in general is marginal, and 2)there's no actual evidence.
Yet another bad day for them.
Steven Greenstreet.
Colin Snider, my old blogging partner from Alterdestiny, has started a new blog dedicated to Latin American issues. It's been up for a month or so now with many excellent.