I suppose it’s nearly tautological to note that Jack Shafer’s attempted defense of Mouthpiece Theater (or, at least, his argument that the Post should continue to waste its resources and credibility by producing it) completely fails. The first thing you’ll notice is that he didn’t even try to argue that it was funny, or insightful, […]
Month: August 2009
A nice tribute.
I appreciate international society’s need for mercenary companies. Developing military institutions is difficult and time consuming, and even though mercenaries are expensive, they can provide s
NYT bit here. It may be a generational thing, but when I think about John Hughes, there’s a certain subset of his oeuvre that I think about. In some ways, these films are nothing more than a guilty pleasure, in others, evocative of a certain time and place, (naturally). Having graduated from high school in […]
This is an interesting list, but the concept doesn’t strike me as quite right. From Wikipedia: It also refers to government or corporate project involving large numbers of people and usually hea
68-31. If I were a hack, this is where I would be outraged that many Republicans would vote against a qualified nominee because somehow Supreme Court nominees will be entirely non-ideological as long
I’m still not sure why, exactly, but I’ve been assured repeatedly that it just is. The American Psychological Association declared Wednesday that mental health professionals [obesity researchers] should not tell gay [fat] clients they can become straight [thin] through therapy [dieting] or other treatments [“lifestyle changes”]. In a resolution adopted by the association’s governing council, […]
Via Galrahn, it looks as if the Royal Navy is ditching plans to buy the F-35B (VSTOL variant), and instead buying the F-35C (carrier variant) and adding catapults to its new carriers. As I’ve su
To make some comments on the conversation between Drum and Yglesias (and Hertzberg): The case for the constitutionality of the filibuster starts from a compelling basis: Article I specifies that ̶
I’m sure you’ll be sad to learn that the Post has mercifully killed The Poochie and Poochie Show The Three Minute News Hour Mouthpiece Theater: Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli killed the satirical video series Wednesday after harsh criticism of a joke about Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, which had prompted him to pull the […]
Well, this pretty much beats the shit out of anything Juan Williams has said recently. Given Liasson’s record on Katrina itself, one supposes she ought to avoid mentioning the subject altogether
There’s nothing a winger pundit can do to become discredited. Indeed, if your baldfaced lies help torpedo a major progressive initiative, they’re actually an asset. And, no, the damage can