You know, the world would be a better place if Joseph C. Avery had never left Pennsylvania.
Month: November 2009
A friend tips me off that the Friday after next (December 4) will be the 20th anniversary of the Women’s Information Network, a DC social network organization for young, professional pro-choice
The Observer published the new Ipsos-MORI poll on Sunday on voting intentions for the forthcoming British election, and the media are all aflutter about its implications. Specifically, the Tory lead h
Both pictures of Imogen were taken this weekend; the only major political event to temporally intercede was the Senate vote on that silly anti-democratic procedure called cloture allowing debate on health care reform. With my careful guidance and tutelage, I’m sure she will correctly decide between progressive politics and supporting the BNP by the time […]
Oh, fucking hell. It’s the presidential campaign. I’d forgotten about this part. Fortunately for me, there’s not much to say, really, about chapter 4 that hasn’t already been w
Lindsay Beyerstein argues that, contrary to the most obvious inference, that reproductive freedom advocates weren’t asleep at the switch when the House adopted the Stupak amendment, and that it&
Mr. Brian Cowen is the Prime Minister of Ireland I might be able to forgive saying something dumb in the immediate aftermath of an important game in which an official blew an important call — maybe even Joe Nathan’s recent impulse to bitch and moan about the egregious missed call in a game in which […]
Americaneoclown is seeing starbursts through the pages of his book: I should add that I’m reading the book now, and I’m finding it as an extremely satisfying account of the everywoman̵
Global warming skeptics are attacking climate scientist Phil Jones for encouraging trickery in an email recently stolen off the webmail server at the University of East Anglia in which he wrote: IR
Via SN: So what if Sarah Palin didn’t write this book? Even God used earthly scribes to write the Bible. This was better than any of the Harlequins I’ve read so far this year. I only found two spelling errors in the whole thing.
The following exchange between Bill O’Reilly and Sarah Palin would, were we talking about any other politician, mark the end of a career. The emphasis is mine: PALIN: With Israel, we cannot get
I realize this is a pedantic complaint, but would it be possible for Sarah Palin to launch her chapters with epigraphs that aren’t of dubious origin? The first chapter, for example, opens with a