I must admit, seeing the camera pan around Wrigley Field before the game made me wish I was at Yearly Kos (well, I wouldn’t have been at Yearly Kos now but you can see what I’m driving at.) Especially given the possibility (now unlikely to happen) of the astonishing return of Jim Brown Kerry Wood. […]
Month: August 2007
News today of a new study that demonstrates that young single women living in big cities earn more than their male counterparts. This of course stands in stark opposition to the fact that fathers earn
Ah, I believe we would have here our wanker of the day. I also note that 1)the money made by hedge fund managers is clearly compensation not capital gains, and 2)taxing capital gains at lower rates is
Following up on Bean’s excellent analysis from earlier this week, Lindsay notes the shifts in language in the way the story was covered, and brings us to the obvious bottom line: “Hoarding self-aborted fetuses is creepy as all hell, but it’s not a crime in Maryland.” My question: if possessing a fetus after a stillbirth […]
UPDATE: Matt Sanchez reports that Beauchamp’s Brigade Combat Team has issued a report indicating that Beauchamp’s stories have been “proven false”. Sanchez hasn’t given a
Welcome to the first installment of Dunce O’ the Week. This week’s winner wasn’t a hard pick: Bill O’Reilly (this may be the first of many weeks he wins). Why? Well, his relent
As you – loyal readers – now know (because I write about it ad nauseum), the criminal justice system’s reliance on eyewitness testimony has led to many many (many) false convictions. But a new study shows that the problem is not the eyewitness’s misremembering. It’s the prosecutors who pushed them to misremember…or flat out lie. […]
Friday Cat Blogging… Starbuck and Nelson
Diane Feinstein, who cast the key vote to let arch-reactionary Leslie Southwick out of the Judiciary Committee. Apparently, she saw the Roberts Court’s first term, liked what she saw, and figure
Showing how much my instincts can be trusted, the “Scott Thomas” story turns out to have been solid, with the only demonstrable error a trivial detail irrelevant to the main thrust to the story. For the punchline, one of his primary critics seems to have his own credibility issues…
Pictured above: The Dead-Enders Caucus, meeting with the president for Tang, butter cookies and frank conversation about “the calling of our time.” By sheer chance, I actually happened to
This column by Anna Quindlen has generated some discussion among the “pro-lifers” at The Corner. As I’ve been through in detail before, the idea that abortion can be a serious violen