The Onion? or Our Lady of the Magic Dolphins? I expect this to be the universal Republican talking point by Thursday. I mean, Paul Ryan once worked a fast food job in high school! As a poor person, you could really identify with having your...
Month: September 2012
The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive I continue to find this kind of logic baffling, although if you're a vanishing breed of.
Oh wait, that would be a good question. My suggestions: "Should Paul Ryan Be The 2016 Democratic Nominee?" By Jacob Weisberg "Sam Alito -- Closet Moderate?" By Stuart Taylor and.
Yesterday I had some more thoughts at the Diplomat on the enduring attraction of the aircraft carrier: Have aircraft carriers become obsolete? Since 1949, analysts have argued that some combination of strategic bombers and cheap anti-shipping weapons have rendered the aircraft carrier a relic. The latest...
Many readers have suggested that I should put my critique of legal education into book form. DON'T GO TO LAW SCHOOL (UNLESS) does so. The book is designed as a.
Lance Mannion for the win, with an assist from James Wolcott's tweet wanting the video of Romney giving the speech from Glengarry Glen Ross. I'm sorry, but Romney does not.
The story behind Jimmy Carter's grandson encouraging the taper of the Romney speech to release it is awesome. Basically, Jimmy Carter IV got sick of Romney saying bad things about his grandfather's handling of the Iran hostage crisis. Revenge is very sweet.
I have a review of Jeffrey Toobin's new book up at the Prospect. To me, the most telling of the many telling details involves the circumstances of Obama's decision to.
The Republican Party has an answer! It can be seen here with helpful illiustrations. Or, in text form: It occurs to me now that the Romney-conservative viewpoint on income taxes.
This originally posted over at Duck of Minerva; had intended to post here, then simply forgot. Context is "Virtual APSA" in which many who had intended to present at APSA did audio or visual online presentations instead. So... the bad news revealed here is that...
In a comment to Scott's post yesterday, Matt Yglesias said this about evaluation of the Chicago teachers. My point about unions favoring job security for their members per se is.
The scab officials did an utterly abysmal job in last weekend's NFL games. But nothing reached the extreme incompetence of last night's Denver-Atlanta game, and that doesn't even count the.