I think it’s easy for people of my generation to underrate him because of his generally dreary feature film career, but Richard Pryor was a genius comedian, one of the very greatest. I’ve been listening to his collection of comedy recordings–mostly from his peak in the mid-70s–and it’s just brilliant stuff, a must-own if you’re […]
Month: December 2005
Apparently sick of having to have politicial appointees overrule professional lawyers, the Bush administration has decided to just skip the middleman: The Justice Department has barred staff attorneys
Peter Schuck’s NYT op-ed starts with a defensible premise, but reaches a conclusion I couldn’t disagree with more strongly. It should be said at the outset that I’m inclined to agree
Friday Cat Blogging. . . Dewey
Like Shakes’ Sis and Lindsay, I think this Nancy Goldtsein article is excellent. I definitely agree that abortion politics need to be seen as a part of a broader project of reproductive autonomy
Henry at CT with an appropos post on the evolving disaster at NYU. The comments thread is illustrative of the quality of argument in defense of the administration (from people–namely David Velle
Shorter Chris “Guilt-By-Overlapping-Opinion-About-the-Merits-of-the-War” Snitchens: the fact that Ramsey Clark is a crackpot proves that “the antiwar faction has subordinated everything to its hatred of Bush.” (An auspicious debut for his “stop the taunting and have a real debate” program…) Via Busy^3.
Many people pointed out that Ohio’s gay-bashing constitutional amendment would raise potentially serious constitutional problems because it was so overbroad. In breaking news the Ohio courts hav
It’s nice that my gym’s renovations are finally done, but the downside of the snazzy new TV sets is no CD players, so I was stuck watching MSNBC in the noonhour. Five minutes of Michael Me
Lest you get the idea that people who were born in Calgary, subsequently moved to Montreal, moved to the States, and blog about hockey are aesthetically dubious male academics, Yglesias notes the new blog from Elisa Cuthbert. (And she’s not alone among up-and-coming starlets; apparently Kristen “Veronica Mars” Bell is a diehard Red Wings fan…)
Oh, yes. This is what makes “My Humps” such an inscrutable pop moment. It’s not Awesomely Bad; it’s Horrifically Bad. The Peas receive no bonus points for a noble missing-of-th
Admittedly, I’m partial toward Tom Baker, who led a great seminar I attended at the Law & Society Association grad student workshop, but for reasons Kevin Drum cites I’m very excited t