Jesse Taylor noted a while back that since the success of Gibson's Passion, conservatives have been routinely trying to draw all sorts of lessons from box office receipts, and they've been doing a pretty damned inept job of it.In the continued effort to search for...
Author: djw
The logic identified in Rob's post last week on the usefulness of incompetence, and vice versa, is rather brilliantly demonstrated in the following call and responses routine. First, Neil Buchanan's.
I haven't got a fucking clue what the tragedy of the commons means.When is that subscription only wall going up? It can't happen soon enough.
Atrios links to Media Matters catching Pat Robertson lying about what he clearly said on a video seen by millions of americans within the last 48 hours.If God does exist and preside of some sort of afterlife restrictecd to the deserving, and (s)he has the...
I'm off 24 hour news channels pretty much as a rule, but I still tune into some CNN at the Gym. I was unfortunate enough to catch a Larry King.
I was preparing a post on the donklephant brand of centrism, but I moved too slowly and Rob made most of my points. I'll scale it back a bit to.
And while I'm on the subject of people saying astonishly stupid things intentionally and in public, take a gander at John "Andy Kaufman" Tierney (hat tip: ezra) give an exciting new version of why global warming just can't come fast enough. Damn, I wish they'd...
So CNBC is running some weird documentary on Walmart. No revelations of any note, until interviewer asked the CEO about the dismal contribution the company makes to employee's health care.
Tim Burke has a thoughtful and fascinating post up about the contradictions of liberal agency with respect to advertising, a puzzle I've occasionally thought about devoting some time to thinking.
Using Brad Delong's frustration with the quality of Jared Diamond critics as a jumping off point, Henry at Crooked Timber considers the odd implications of the arguments of Savage Minds blogger Ozma--specifically, that Diamond's thesis implies a "do-nothing" form of anti-racism:it’s quite clear that if...
Why does Charles Krauthammer think terrorists are a stupid as he is? Like him, I wish they were. But that doesn't make it so.
You just knew that the difficult spot Karl Rove finds himself in would put a fair bit of stress on the already highly elastic boundaries of right-wing justificatory postmodernism. Sane.