(This is yet another one of those visual rhetoric posts that's born of this frighteningly imminent course.) You'll recall that according to the first post, Van Patten made Will a sympathetic deserter and oath breaker; according to the second, Van Patten established the family dynamic...
Month: September 2012
I really loved reading this Rebecca Solnit article on "leftsplaining" after being attacked on Twitter all day yesterday from self-proclaimed lefties because I suggested that those who urge us to.
I can't recommend this Amanda Marcotte piece enough. Abortion has no negative net effect on the Democratic Party's struggles with the white working-class over the past 40 years. Those problems.
I missed this until it was pointed out by a commenter, but dsquared had actually already addressed Romney's executive branch powers in a comment: Nuh uh on anything that requires judicial or regulatory nominations, which are trivially easy to filibuster for a Congressional party that...
How did we reach a point in American life where Bud Selig could be the least loathsome of the major sports league commissioners? This thought causes me nightmares.
Several days ago in these very pages, discussion ensued regarding the latest conservative attempt to rewrite reality through re-weighting polls to one guy's liking. Of course, polling is not an.
A typically essential Charlie Savage piece on Romney's defense policy team: In one of his first acts, President Obama issued an executive order restricting interrogators to a list of nonabusive tactics approved in the Army Field Manual. Even as he embraced a hawkish approach to...
I don't want to repeat myself and I'm reluctant to engage in further conflict with some of the people on the interwebs whom I most admire. So I'll mostly let.
I've been thinking more about issues surrounding what I see as progressives' lack of understanding around how to organize for the change they want. See here, but to reiterate, too.
Since I'm guessing that Glenn's tweet is directed at me, I should clarify what I mean in my previous post. When I said that the issues Friedersdorf focuses on are "pet issues," I am certainly not suggesting that they are not important. I certainly don't...
Chris Blattman links to this very interesting image, charting film genres over time. As you can see, this charts some expected but interesting phenomena--the decline of westerns, the rise of.
This post is going to sound like under-theorized musing not as some sort of rhetorical device, but because I'm sincerely puzzled by the following question (triggered, obviously, by the last.