Since this is likely to come up again, it's worth clarifying an issue that is likely to come up as the "fiscal cliff" "gentle fiscal incline" approaches. As stated in the most extreme form by Jessie Levine in comments, some people seem opposed to any deal...
Assuming that Florida doesn't manage to fuck it up again, the final number are: Obama 332 electoral Obama 50.5% national Six entries took 332. Two entries took 50.8. One entry.
Somerby has a nice point about how pundits suddenly started caring about the overemphasis placed on predictions only when people hired by mainstream outlets started making predictions with actual rigor..
Philip Roth, the greatest American writer of his era, claims to have retired. In the end, this might be a good thing, assuming he really retires. While his 90s and early 2000s resurgence was brilliant, his last novels were, uh, not very good. I had a...
The best way to play the budget negotiations is to let the Bush tax cuts expire and use the resulting leverage to get something relatively favorable to liberal interests. The.
Alyssa Rosenberg leads us to discussions of a Casablanca sequel: The New York Post is reporting that there's some momentum behind a decades-old script treatment for a follow-up by one.
Exhibit A: Florida Exhibit B: Ohio
This may, believe it or not, be the scariest thing I've ever read about the modern GOP: Romney advisers are telling CBS News that there wasn't one person on the.
By request, a roughly chronological account of the last few months of our favorite troll's life: Romney already hitting it out of the park. Stick a fork in Obama, he’s.
My new favorite post-election reaction goes to Robert E. Murray, CEO of Murray Energy. He sent this prayer to America out to his workers, followed by his view of the nation's future: Dear Lord: The American people have made their choice. They have decided that America...
One of the issues with teaching Game of Thrones is that nudity is treated very casually—so casually that the very idea of watching it with your mother feels deeply wrong..
I'm just gonna come out and say it: The failure rate of Trojans is way, way too high for comfort. From ESPN LA: "USC fired a student manager for deflating.