It’s been a tough battle, with too many entries to count. But I can finally award the prize for the silliest, most poorly substantiated, and phoned-in recitation of the “Democrats hate ordinary people” script toLawrence Kaplan. Admittedly, this may seem unfair, since Kaplan actually tries to cite examples, a true innovation in the genre. Alas, […]
Month: November 2004
This looks relatively promising: TAKING THE RED-BAIT: George Clooney will direct and star in Goodnight and Good Luck, a feature about news anchor Edward R. Murrow’s on-air confrontations with Se
Absolutely magnificent Howler on the subject of whether the Democrats lose because their candidates routinely sneer at middle American values: Why did this reader vote for Bush? He says the Democrati
I think Paul Krugman tried to warn us about this. Yikes. The dollar could slide still further, in spite of hitting an all-time low against the euro last week in the wake of George W. Bush’s re-election, currency traders have said. The dollar sell-off has resumed amid fears among traders that Mr Bush’s victory will bring […]
Several colleagues have expressed skepticism at my post-election claim that were Bush to appoint a Justice from within to fill the CJ vacancy that will almost certainly be left before the inauguration
Matt Yglesias asks a good question: My friends in the choice movement keep assuring me that the pro-choice position is overwhelmingly popular, and that it’s overwhelmingly important that the Se
From Kos, we learn that the trend here in Washington of the Democrats picking up seats in the state houses is happening around the country. It’s happy news, to be sure, but I can’t say I have any brilliant ideas as to why this is occurring. Perhaps there are less mechanisms for keeping the obviously loopy […]
The Poor Man is–for good reason–one of my favorite blogs, so I was hoping that this post was just a Swiftian joke, but apparently it’s not. Lindsay Beyerstein does a good job of di
Many have pointed to this Paul Freedman article at Slate, which makes the case that anti-gay initiatives may not have had the electoral impact many of us assumed. He’s got some good points, alt
Matthew Yglesias is right to suggest that the modern Christian Right, despite some intimations to the contrary, does have some notion of social justice, and it’s not all bad. Certainly the following rhetorical questions Who’s working to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa? Who’s trying to help refugees in Darfur? Who’s trying to stop global […]
Kevin Drum has a great post mocking the silly contention that the Democrats are doomed because they can’t win in the south, while one never hears that the Republicans are doomed because they ca
My dear friend Brian Mahoney has sent me a remarkably eloquent e-mail; I reprint in its entirety. I’ve been in a state of shock for the last couple days, reading blogs, news, and emails from fr