The 5CA wingnut power trio.
Month: April 2012
I know my own pet favorite -- Stuart Taylor -- will be a longshot, but I'm glad that he got Richard Cohen in there. ...also, I think we can all.
The great Italian novelist (though many of his novels take place in Portugal) is no more. Sad news. A writer worthy of the Nobel.
Not to toot my own very limited horn, but for any of you all in New Mexico, on April 14, I am speaking on blogging and history at the University of New Mexico's symposium entitled "Where Does History Live," along with such luminaries as Jon...
Van Jones' piece at The Nation confirms in my mind that the man is little more than a continual platitude, offering soft and spongy rhetoric in the place of deeper.
You know, Jose Feliciano, you got no complaints. Jose Reyes playing for Jeffrey Loria, you got many complaints. Picks soon. Alas, I suspect Howard will be giving money.
On this date in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray while in Memphis to support a strike by the city's sanitation workers. In the spring of 1968, Martin Luther King was organizing his Poor People's Campaign. Hoping to bring attention...
Ann Friedman's political, link-added summary of the National Magazine Awards is doubly useful. The complete exclusion of women from the opinion section is particularly egregious; if anyone can come up.
Today's worst person in the world, David Stern: "David Stern would love a system in which Anthony Davis and the rest of Kentucky's freshmen stars were required to try to.
Glenn: That there is such vehement condemnation over this strip-search ruling, almost all of which ignores the fact that the Obama administration was fully on board with it and helped to bring it about, is — as this VastLeft cartoon suggests — a microcosm for...
Scott links below to Ruth Marcus's inane pearl-clutching over how Obama criticizing the Supreme Court could be interpreted as an Assault On the Rule of Law and Thus Our Most.
Elizabeth Kolbert has an interesting essay in The New Yorker about the ethics of parenting, wondering whether if there are ever ethical reasons to have children. Ethics certainly don't determine.