…that the quality and quantity of healthcare is vastly different depending on where you live, what your racial and ethnic background is, and how much money you have. And the differences are especially apparent when it comes to maternal health and infant mortality. A new study shows that, at least in New York City, while […]
Month: October 2007
One of my favorite sections of Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class dwells on the “pecuniary reputation” of certain varieties of domesticated animals. In short, Veblen argu
The major Republican candidates have all endorsed Bush’s appalling veto of S-CHIP. If the Democratic candidate can’t repeatedly hammer his or her opponent throughout the campaign for this,
I certainly agree with Yglesias that “It would be a big, big problem for Giuliani’s general election campaign to have any of the major cultural conservative institutions backing a third party candidate. It’s generally very difficult to win when you have a spoiler trying to take you down the way Ross Perot was gunning for […]
Shorter Verbatim Daily Conservative, in re: one of the corporations that Made Milwaukee Famous sponsoring the Folsom Street Fair: “They’re still crappy beer, now they’re crappy gay beer.R
The war on parody proceeds at full speed. UPDATE by bean: . . . and look who’s laughing.
You might ask “How could it get any worse?” To that query, I reply “Mr. James Kirchick.” First things first, in accusing Eric Alterman and Matt Yglesias of nihilism for the crime of linking to my denunciation of Christopher Hitchens China column, Mr. Kirchick handily demonstrates that he doesn’t know what the word nihilism means. […]
Someone apparently forgot to tell Charlie Manuel what any Twins or Reds fan already knows, which is that Kyle Lohse is not, in fact, a good pitcher. Best to get these things straight before you allow
Ann Coulter, via Garance: If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democratic president. It’s kind of a pipe dream, a personal fantasy of mine I&
Last night, Mikhail Gorbachev visited Louisville, and the bulk of the Patterson School braved deer filled roads to attend. I haven’t seen Gorbachev before, so I can’t say how much or whether last night’s talk varied from the speech that he normally gives, but I was a little bit surprised at the sharpness of his […]
It’s no longer a surprise to hear about Republican presidential candidates (or presidents) blowing off the black community. But it’s still enraging and sad…and, at the hands of the D
In response to this excellent Paul Waldman article, Yglesias cuts to the heart of the matter: I’ll beat that. What’s really, really remarkable is the source of Iowa’s growing signifi