It's not uncommon for those on our side of the aisle to engage in what we call wonkery--playing around with ideas for tweaking and improving policy, regardless of the political feasibility of such schemes. It's a reasonable way to pass the time, and it keeps...
Author: djw
Damn, blogger ate the first draft of this post. Doesn't matter, I've got little to add. Just do what the title says. Important and profoundly correct. I hope people that.
Via Yglesias, I see more circumstantial evidence for the blogospherical psychoanalysis of Marshall Wittman performed by Paperwight and myself. Nothing like a tiresome, pious scolding of the left for self-righteously putting their political preferences.
I'm not in a productive mood as I'm just waiting around until it's time to go see Slint. I doubt anyone cares much, but I've got my own top 10 movies of 2004 post pretty much ready to go, but it's being held up until...
As a matter or general policy, I try to avoid making assumptions about the motives of others, especially those I've never met and don't know. Still, it's hard to see.
Now that was a great game, one of the best I've seen in a long time, and a happy outcome to boot. Congrats to Lorenzo Romar on glorious season. I.
Regular readers of this blog know that all three of us are pretty much of one mind when it comes to the new conservative enthusiasm for global democracy promotion. Let's just say we're skeptical. But if we take such things seriously, we have to ask...
No, it's not another interminable Hegel-obsesssed film review by Charles Mudede. It's in the news section, where The Stranger occasionally pulls it together to offer a quality product. I've got nothing.
(Context: The Northwest Film Forum in Seattle has been hosting an Yasuhiro Ozu retrospective, screening 27 of Ozu's 33 surviving films. I've managed to see six of them so far, and.
As a follow-up on Scott's excellent post below, see this new blog-within-a-blog at TPM. Pretty cool, for those of us who like to rubberneck at this slow-motion train-wreck. The blog is written by a Harvard Law professor with some expertise in this area, Elizabeth Warren,...
I've tried leaving a comment on Russell Arben Fox's excellent Zhang Yimou post, but it's not working so I'll just do it here. I admired Hero a great deal more than.
I can't wait to hear the 'just so' story that fits this into the narrative Summers various defenders are spinning.