Clay Davis vs. Rod Blagojevich? …speaking of which, apparently there’s corruption in the Baltimore mayor’s office. Who could have guessed?
Month: January 2009
Huh. Has anyone ever seen Olbermann and Poe in the same room? I’m hoping this guy wins the nomination next year, if for no other reason than to freak Palin out on a daily basis.
America’s Worst Columnist says that “there are only two possible endgames: (A) a Lebanon-like cessation of hostilities to be supervised by international observers, or (B) the disintegratio
The fact that more than two and a half million jobs were lost in 2008 proves that upper-class tax cuts are great economic policy. And thank God we took the advice of the great Alan Greenspan and didn’t pay down the debt too quickly; that was always a serious risk and we sure couldn’t use […]
Why isn’t Tim Tebow being sent to the Gaza Strip this morning to bring peace in our time? Actual quote from Thom Brennamen last night: “If you are fortunate enough to spend five minutes wi
The Knows Pickers win it! If the winner would furnish me with an address, I will furnish s/he with an appropriate prize. I’m almost (but not quite) inclined to give a prize for last, too; 9-25 i
Friday Cat Blogging… Starbuck
I’m not sure what’s more troublesome here: the fact that Alabama allows county sheriffs to profit from serving meals in their jails, or that it allocates a mere $1.75 per diem to feed them
One thing to consider, when listening to Will Saletan types talking about how everybody should simply agree that abortion is immoral, is that shaming women about obtaining abortions has real (and bad)
Thomas Ricks has a bit more on academic freedom at the Army War College. Ricks quotes Mark Perry: It’s worse than you think. They have curtailed the curriculum so that their students are not exposed to radical Islam. Akin to denying students access to Marx during the Cold War…. I was a part of a […]
Via Yglesias, Justin Logan asks an interesting question: Realists talk a lot about structure in the international political context: various structures of the balance of power push states in one direc
Sanjay Gupta, CNN medical correspondent and Obama’s choice for surgeon general, is against the passage of medical marijuana laws (let alone legalizing the substance) because — wait for it