As we all expected, TBogg has weighed in on Slate’s pro-Creed contrarianism….
Month: October 2009
I’ll grant that Oliver has pitched well for two years, but what the hell was he doing taking Lackey out after 104 pitches? You’ll have to take my word that this was a first guess, but wow.
In addition to being excellent news on the policy merits, the fact that Maine has an initiative system means that the state provides an excellent test case for claims that recent initiatives opposing
This is lame, even by NPR’s diminishing standards. Rudin — whom you might recall comparing Hillary Clinton to Glenn Close’s character in Fatal Attraction — is apparently a master of grotesque analogies. Since the historical crime of Nixon Minimization is in full effect here, it’s worth recalling for a moment that Nixon’s attacks on the […]
Daniel Davies clearly knows a thing or two about playing the contrarian. His rules for contrarians post is, unsurprisingly, a must-read: The whole idea of contrarianism is that you’re “attacking t
Ross Douthat was, understandably but not admirably, unwilling to defend his opposition to same-sex marriage rights in public: At first Mr. Douthat seemed unable to get a sentence out without interrupt
Example 1: The simple act of criticizing Sarah Palin is sexism. Really: you don’t even need an implausible story about what’s sexist about the criticism, the fact that there’s a book critical of Palin is good enough. Example 2: Calling a Republican woman accused of excessively sane policy positions a “cow that had a rear […]
It’s difficult to plow through the many layers of rank idiocy in the assertion that Turkey is “lost to the Islamists”; I can identify at least a few… The insinuation that the o
Another example.
Loomis has identified a troubling trend.
The attacks on the administration and its allies for deciding to shun Fox News are so cute. This is my favorite: In [Obama’s] America there is no Constitution, there is no First Amendment, there
Next week: Celine Dion is really a better singer than Billie Holiday — ignore the “cognoscenti,” just look at the sales figures! …UPDATE [from davenoon]… Behold proof of