The fallacy Scott identifies in the post immediately below needs a pithy, clever name or acronym (I'm bad at this sort of thing--suggestions?), and the community of liberals needs to become better at quickly identifying it and hanging it around the necks of prominent perpetrators....
Author: djw
Sadly, No! points us to a typically tragi-comic exchange in which our president, once again, demonstrates his inability to remember the various twists and turns in language manipulation, this time.
Good news here in Washington. The Democrats, with real majorities in both houses, are going after the questionable funding of the Building Industry Association of Washington. Apparently, the BIAW, and.
We may not have the cinema options here in Seattle that Scott does in New York, but we do OK out here. Case in point: from February 3rd-March 10th, The Northwest Film Forum on Capitol Hill is having an Ozu retrospective. And they're not kidding...
I had no idea what a luddite I've become in my music-listening practices until I saw this thread at Matthew Yglesias. All my music is in CD form (about 600 of.
Good lord. Kevin Drum is feeling guilty for being so audacious as to oppose handing the Arnold a PR coup that would gain his party seats locally and nationally, in exchange.
Some troglodytic schmuck on NPR just minutes ago...."If we grant Al Qaeda members the protections accorded under the Geneva convention, then all any country or group has to do to get Geneva convention protections is to act like Al Qaeda."
I don't know how I missed this TCS parody from The Poorman. We owe Andrew Northrup a debt of gratitude. I stumbled onto this link via Ted Barlow, who is having.
A score of military officials penning a letter pleading with civilian authorities to display some modicum of respect for human rights. Via Kleiman. And if you think it's odd that they're using.
1) Hire a real economist. There are real right-wing economists out there--several of them. I'm sure a few of them would be willing to write now and again for such an august and historic publication. Having this clown as your economist does a disservice to conserative...
I've spent the last several days with my family, away from computers and email. This has given me time to ponder various trivialities far more than I, or anyone, should..
Today's clue is that I'm sitting at home in my pajamas watching oral arguments before Washington State Surpreme court. I just learned about the fascinating way in which court of.