I'm not sure why, but the fact that this weekend saw the release of yet another pointless remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre struck me as a particularly striking example of Hollywood creative bankruptcy. And yet, when the market rewards it, what can you...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Bengals (+4) over Texans: I wouldn't read all that much into Houston's late slump in itself. But I do think that the improved play of the Bengals is meaningful, since.
This gets it right. Tyler Kepner's piece a couple months ago about drug warrior sportswriters contained a very revealing quote: “In each of those areas, players who used steroids fail.
Kevin Drum's new article about crime and leaded gasoline is a must-read: Put all this together and you have an astonishing body of evidence. We now have studies at the international level, the national level, the state level, the city level, and even the individual...
Let's review a great story of American meritocracy, Mr. Charlie Weis: Weis acquired the reputation of an offensive supergenius by being associated with the best coach of his generation in.
Murc Marc makes an argument that was inevitable in any thread about the obesity myth: And then he claims (in other contexts) that it’s impossible to lose weight – ignoring.
It's not just disaster relief -- the House Republican leadership continues to find a variety of appalling-in-themselves excuses to refuse to renew the Violence Against Women Act: But House Republicans insisted the bill is too supportive of immigrants, the LGBT community, and Native Americans --...
Glenn Reynolds has been using nutty Clinton conspiracy theories (which he clung to for a ridiculously long time) as a vehicle for running a one-liner into the ground, showing that.
Peter King (R-NY): "I’m saying right now, anyone from New York or New Jersey who contributes one penny to congressional Republicans is out of their minds. Because what they did.
So what now? I think this is about right: So what we have is two more showdowns in which the parties disagree not just on the outcome but even on the parameters of an outcome. Obama thinks the debt ceiling needs to be raised, full...
To supplement Erik's links and analysis below, see Scheiber on the one hand and Sargent on the other. I still lean towards the former, for similar reasons -- given how.
What Chait and Noah said about the deal that hopefully won't happen. As always, it's not that I'm opposed to any possible deal that makes concessions on tax rates, but.