Shorter Verbatim BoBo: "I have been trying to think of some wisdom I have acquired over the past three decades, and I’m drawing a blank."
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Ross Douthat.
Apparently, her stance on the ethics of plagiarism has changed considerably over the decades. And, of course, her plagiarism is much worse, since nobody (except perhaps some PUMAs and right-wing.
Shorter Charles Krauthammer: "I have an open-and-shut case for a "ticking time bomb" scenario that justifies torture. In this case, there was no ticking time bomb, and the torture didn't work. See?" See also. Man, this is pathetic stuff. But when you try to justify...
Shorter Verbatim Ross Douthat: "The pro-life movement is arguably more comfortable with the language of rights and liberties than its opponents. Abortion foes are defending a right to life grounded.
Ezra notes that "it's really worth distinguishing what are two separate arguments. The first is that we can't claw back the bonuses. That's what outside counsel told AIG Chairman Edward Liddy (Liddy was appointed by the government in 2008 and will not receive any bonuses)...
Adam discusses Maureen Dowd's lunacy so that -- this time at least -- I don't have to.
In re: MoDo, what Chait and Yglesias and Benen said. In criticizing Dowd for focusing almost entirely on inane personal trivia larded with her bizarre gender obsessions, I might have.
Social Security is, as we all know, a very popular and very successful program. For a variety of reasons, centrist pundits in general and the Washington Post in particular have a huge fetish about undermining it in various ways. Recently, CeCi Connolly -- yes, the...
Shorter Verbatim Wan Juilliams: "Michelle Obama, you know, she's got this Stokely Carmichael in a designer dress thing going."NPR's Ombudsman, in response, asserts that Williams is "now paid to give.
All-star commenter IB says:OT (but appropriate to a previously stated position of this blog): Another smart Sunday piece by Frank Rich.(Noted because: About a week ago, someone (SL, I think,.