Michael Berube's piece is, of course, excellent. This point deserves further emphasis: What we do know is that everyone who had any knowledge of the 1998 investigation should have rung every available alarm, and gone to every appropriate authority, after McQueary reported what he saw...
Month: October 2012
Futzing around on Facebook last night, I had an idea—which turned into a very interesting thread—about teaching a class on “films that can’t be unseen.” My suggestions were Requiem for.
I have a piece for the Prospect about the narrow range of issues that have been discussed at the presidential debates: And perhaps the biggest dog that hasn't barked is.
I'm glad Krugman has chosen to clarify the stakes: So there’s no real question that lack of insurance is responsible for thousands, and probably tens of thousands, of excess deaths of Americans each year. But that’s not a fact Mr. Romney wants to admit, because...
R.I.P. Well, he was on the right side in one of the extremely rare occasions where the Senate made itself useful. On the other hand, his misogynist bullying during the.
Since she has some unreadable new book to promote, apparently Salon is happy to inform us at the usual interminable length. Kathleen gets many of the most egregious bits, although.
Obviously, it's excellent that the Tigers were able to take the first two games at beautiful new 1% Assholes Who Leave After the Fifth Inning Stadium. Since as his press conference the Yankee manager was looking to blame people other than his players, a few...
As reported on Up with Chris this morning, Mike Elk has an important story out on how the Koch Brothers are trying to influence workers in the companies they own.
Stuff that's been hanging around in the inbox... How economic slowdown in China may affect the PLAN. How China uses seapower. Royal Navy action reports from World War I and.
I can't believe that John Yoo was never arrested for issuing the memo giving Jose Valverde permission to pitch playoff games against the Yankees. And I assume that Michael Brown was temporarily sitting in as Tigers manager when the decision not to bring in Smyly...
Should we do a real one of these arbitrary exercises this time? What the hell: Tigers v. The Fucking Yankees: Oddly, of my 2012 predictions the one that produced the.
As a general rule, I oppose outing anonymous people online -- as a practical matter, for many people anonymity is the only economically viable way of participating in online discourse..