A quick addendum to Scott’s post below before I run off to show my students the 1965 thriller Perversion for Profit. If Kinsley wants the Democrats to avoid “the Nixon Doctrine” of “Vietnamization,” he needs to recall first that neither the Nixon Doctrine nor Vietnamization were specifically Nixonian innovations. The Johnson administration, before it completely […]
Month: November 2006
The sad decline of Michael Kinsley continues with this bit of vacuous contrarianism, which has been understandably picked up by jingoist Republican bloggers like Glenn “more rubble, less trouble
Every report I’m hearing indicates that voting in Lexington is going very, very slowly. No apparent reason, as there’s no governor race in Kentucky and the local House race isn’t com
Before I trudge out to the fire station and cast a futile vote against Don Young, my chronic pessimism obliges me to remind everyone that November 7 is the six-year anniversary of the Worst Election Ever. I don’t know how I maintained my sobriety that night, but my girlfriend at the time nearly had to […]
My predictions for the election outcome are up at TAPPED. You’ll see that, despite a fairly generous appraisal of the Democrats’ chances in the Senate, I was skeptical of Webb’s chan
“My beloved Whig Party — the great party of Henry Clary and Daniel Webster, of Willie Magnum and Theodore Frelighuysen — used to stand for important if not always exciting issues. Th
Glenn Reynolds is a “racist.” This isn’t my judgment, mind you, but the judgment of the Libertarian Jacksonian Whig himself.
Is there a more irritating genre of political commentary than that of yoosta-bees? That is, generally ill-informed dilettantes who can’t keep talking about their banal move to the right as they
With less than 24 hours to go before the polls open, TEH STUPID has been set loose upon the world like an Old Testament plague of toads: Shorter Ann Althouse, Part I: “I’m willing to forge
Kind of depressing that upstate Republicans can’t make it quite as subtle as Republicans in Tennessee…
USS Intrepid is reluctant to move… After 24 years at the same Hudson River pier, the legendary aircraft carrier USS Intrepid was inched out of its berth by powerful tugboats on Monday — bu
Speaking of local coffee shops, my part of the neighborhood exists at a confluence of large Croatian, Arab, and Greek communities, and a happy consequence of this is the existence of many European-sty