This isn't very bloody reassuring.Not every case is so consequential. And in truth, we did not disqualify any applicants based purely on their blogs. If the blog was a negative factor, it was one of many that killed a candidate's chances.More often that not, however,...
Month: July 2005
Assuming that Rehnquist does, in fact, resign tomorrow morning, I would repeat that 1)I think it's very likely that Bush will, as is the historical norm, nominate someone from outside.
Ezra provides a useful compilation of abortion public opinion data. Having waded through more of this stuff than anybody voluntarily would for professional reasons, I can confirm that public opinion.
A correspondent asked me about Castle Rock, the recent Supreme Court case that concerned a failure to enforce a restraining order that led to the murder of 3 children. My initial post, I think, wasn't really sufficient. Upon further reflection, I am more convinced than...
Ben Adler via Kevin Drum:William Kristol, The Weekly StandardWhether he personally believes in evolution: "I don't discuss personal opinions. ... I'm familiar with what's obviously true about it as well.
Alicublog uncovers a real (albeit unintended) gem: this Mallard Fillmore strip. You see, what appeared in Jon Stewart's parody of a civics textbook was not a satire of a particularly.
Perhaps not appropriate for this morning, but nonetheless:"Entourage" represents so vast an improvement over HBO's "Sex and the City" that it makes that show seem, in retrospect, like nothing more than a one-note celebration of pluckiness, devised for a tweener reading level. By contrast, "Entourage"...
This hardly needs to be mentioned, but do not watch an American news network if you have access to BBC America.
Via Crooked Timber.London Pride has been handed down to us.London Pride is a flower that’s free.London Pride means our own dear town to us,And our pride it for ever will.
Jeanne D'Arc provides a very useful corrective to the James Traub's piece in the Sunday Magazine. Trying to determine when interventions stand a good chance of working really does require that we not sweep the consequences of recent interventions and entanglements under the rug.
Atrios has some observations worth reading on blogging and anonymity:I've been thinking about this quite a lot lately, and I have some advice for new bloggers: do it anonymously, at.
"Dixie" is prominent among those songs which should never be played on the 4th of July. I'm open to the argument that there are legitimate occasions for the playing of.