I also thought this was one of the best lines of the debate. It gets to the heart of the problems with what passes for "conservatism" in this country. The vice president, I'm surprised to hear him talk about records. When he was one of...
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Matt has a brilliant post on Cheney's suitability as a Bond villain: A caretaker one? Yes, even though Cheney would not be out of place as a Bond villain, I.
Can it be that hard to make up plausible lies? Addressing the National Prayer Breakast, Cheney said: "Thank you. Thank you very much. Congressman Watts, Senator Edwards, friends from across America.
Ever wonder how The Addams Family and Oz ended up in the same television universe? Crossovers. Lots of them. Some with unintended effects. For example, we know that The Simpsons are in the same fictional universe as Law and Order because Mulder and Scully of X-Files once...
A pair of excellent posts from Brad Delong this morning. The first deals with the question of how a reasonably smart group of people (as, frankly, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz, et.
Everyone else seems to have posted on these: Estimation Quiz: 39% Politics Quiz: Practical Lefty (very surprising, I know)
Michael Moore turned down the Killian memos, considering them to be unreliable. When Michael Moore has a more rigorous vetting process than CBS News, we have problems. If this sort of thing only happened to Republicans, then I might be inclined to give more weight to...
I wept, very briefly, following his final at bat. Edgar leaves with a .312 batting average, .419 on base percentage, and .517 slugging percentage. If you're not familiar, those are all.
Brad Delong is on the case: The Declaration of Independence: When... it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another... a decent respect.
Who would have thought that empirical verification of Nietzsche was possible?
The Habsburg Empire has always fascinated me. Whenever I play Diplomacy or a computer game based on 19th century Europe, I try to play Austria-Hungary. What most appeals to me.
This is how far I got into David Brooks' latest column: In weak moments, I think the best ticket for this country would be Bush-Kerry. The two men balance each other.