The thing is, Joe Wilson did wake up my baby just after I’d gotten him to sleep. (via Prof. B.’s Facebook feed….)
Month: September 2009
Gil Grissom vs. Jessica Fletcher?* *Infant care=too much daytime teevee=stupid questions
It’s a turn or two past on the news cycle, but Lance Mannion is making sense: I’m sure the school districts that didn’t show the speech live got calls from sensible parents but most
In addition to the obvious, this quote from Joe Wilson is pretty remarkable: Wilson said it is unfair to debate rumors about Thurmond when he can no longer defend himself. The same goes for discussion of an affair Thomas Jefferson is said to have had with a slave. “Sometimes these things just go on,” Wilson […]
“Mean” Jean Schmidt, who “represents” me in Congress, is apparently a Birther: Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH) spoke at the Voice of America tea party this Labor Day weekend outside o
I didn’t see it live, but this is a useful summary.
Loomis begins a series on financial catastrophes in US history with a look at the 1837 Panic, which among other things underscores the avant la lettre wingnuttery of Andrew Jackson. Obviously the story of the Second Bank is complicated, but the degree to which Jackson personalized the whole affair is really quite remarkable. His hostility […]
Dana has the details.
Via Krugman (who does a good job of explaining why a reform bill should contain a public option), perhaps someone can make heads or tails of this Joe Klein argument, because I sure can’t: I woul
This is garbage: Doctors left a premature baby to die because he was born two days too early, his devastated mother claimed yesterday. Sarah Capewell begged them to save her tiny son, who was born just 21 weeks and five days into her pregnancy – almost four months early. They ignored her pleas and allegedly […]
Yeah, good luck with that. Although I am never surprised by anything from the winger puke funnel going mainstream…
I usually find Nate Silver’s stuff over at 538 (and especially at BP) careful and sound, if often atheoretical. On balance his foray into politics and political science in the blogosphere has