Shorter Roger L. Simon: "Everything changed for me on September 11. I used to consider myself a Democrat, but thanks to 9/11, I’m outraged that Ronald Reagan appeared at the 1981 Oscars.* Why not just send us to the gulag?" Roy has more examples, of...
Month: February 2013
On Seth McMarflane, I once again quote one of my all-time favorite critical lines, from Robert Christgau: "Irony--an excuse for anything and a reason for nothing." ...so they did just.
I'm quite willing to be skeptical of the construction of martyrdom in the early Christian Church, but this seems rather the wrong approach: This is not to deny that some.
Let Alex Pareene be your guide into the weekly circles of Hell known as the Sunday talk shows. Why anyone watches these things, I do not know. Note: you may want an alcoholic beverage of choice at hand while reading.
Sam Mendes is the Don Delillo of contemporary cinema, in that he's as beloved as he's banal and otherwise right-thinking people seem incapable of recognizing him as such. A few.
Ari Kohen has an excellent post today discussing Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's new policy prohibiting working from home: I don’t even think about this issue from the perspective of someone.
It is always a depressing experience to read a comment thread having anything to do with feminism and find out what professional and amateur misogynists think feminism consists of. For example, our newish troll curmudgeon: Meanwhile, the historical arc of feminist argumentation on the Internet...
I am agnostic over the question at hand in this article, whether Anne Hathaway is a good actress. This is largely because I can't think of a reason why I.
It's nice that the Yankees are embracing what we here at LGM have known forever: Part of the Yankees' argument: a concession that in the baseball world, they are, in.
The Onion comes to life. I'm encouraged to see that the international sport of ice fishing is taking proactive steps to weed out performance enhancing steroids and human growth hormones, with the United States Anti-Doping Agency providing an official on site in a Wisconsin tavern following the...
On this week's episode of Foreign Entanglements, Matt speaks with James Joyner about Hagel, Hamas, and Rand Paul:
Check out the historian Ruth Rosen's essay on the historical arc of feminism. She sees the project at its halfway point, particularly noting the very difficult struggles to fight against.