Of course the conservative response to comparing Ted Cruz and Joe McCarthy is to embrace McCarthy.
Month: February 2013
I don't know how I missed this: Missouri state Rep. Mike Leara (R) loves the Second Amendment so much he wants to make it a felony for state lawmakers to.
Cleaning out the ol' Google Reader... Stephen Walt lists "Five Inconvenient Truths" that he wishes American policymakers would tell. See also Walt for a tribute to the late Glenn Snyder..
Walter Cronkite previews the office of 2001, in 1967. Marissa Mayer would obviously disapprove. Working from home! Of course, Cronkite couldn't imagine a woman in this office. Via
A few interesting pieces on Asian food and history. 1. This is an interesting discussion of the origins of pad thai, a dish that is fairly minor within Thai cooking.
Is Ron Fournier real? A vicious parody of a self-consciously "centrist" beltway pundit? It's impossible to tell. We can start with the Green Lanternism: But the president won't get off.
Very interesting: Which is where Paraguay’s own “Argo” enters into the story. After Jimmy Carter denied Somoza asylum, he headed to Paraguay, where General Alfredo Stroessner’s right-wing military regime governed. Outraged at the presence of this symbol of right-wing repression, corruption, and greed, according to...
I apologize for the delay between Lemieux's post and my uploading of the podcast, but being that we're responsible folk, we actually went out and purchased the software I'm using.
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Shorter Verbatim Charles Murray: "I had never heard of Seth MacFarlane, and was astonished by his talent. And envious of his impermeable self-confidence." Confusing "greasy smarm" and "unjustified self-regard" with "self-confidence" is pretty much a foundational problem of conservertarianism.
A very entertaining piece from Glenn Kenny, who notes that David Mamet's dismal career as a 28th-rate wingnut pundit wasn't his first attempt to leverage his (justified) reputation as a.
As a historian of the Gilded Age, the sequester is very exciting to me. With each passing day, a big leap back to the halcyon days of the 1890s seems.