Can be found here. In short, it looks to be successful. Longer, the BPIX poll that was released yesterday is being touted as having a large enough sample size to say something about the marginals that the Tories are targeting, and claims the swing in said seats is significantly higher than the national swing. Note, […]
Month: March 2010
Hurt Locker wins best picture. Christoph Waltz wins best supporting actor.
I can’t wait until the new site goes live and I can tuck bulky material below the fold. In the meantime, if you’re interested in the rhetorical chicanery of early Alan Moore (particularly
A good question: should the acting categories at the Oscars be gender-neutral? Certainly, in the abstract I think Elsesser is correct that the gender segregation is indefensible: acting is acting. I take the point in response that in our actual unjust world gender-neutral awards would lead to the underrepresentation of women. My guess, though, is […]
Michael Moore has a recommendation for President Obama about a replacement for Rahm Emanuel: “Dear President Obama, I understand you may be looking to replace Rahm Emanuel as your chief of staff
This is possibly the worst metaphor in the history of, um, . . . history. For one thing, putative changes in the perceived legitmacy of a political regime cannot in any way be compared usefully to con
For those of you who don’t frequent comic blogs but do read comics, you might like to know that Amazon suddenly decided to start selling Marvel’s glossy, hard-bound, phone book-sized omnibus editions for $8.24. Click here to go a conveniently pre-sorted list of severely discounted titles and buy some before Amazon stops honoring orders on […]
Your Sunday morning surrender ceremony:I still look forward to the day that Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, and Mullah Omar surrender on board the USS Ronald Reagan…
Bart Stupak. I actually think Digby is being a little too charitable when she says that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is “willing to deep six the rest of their social justice agenda fo
This is a guest post by Dr. Emily Beaulieu, assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Kentucky. Contentious elections usually make us nervous. To be sure, elections aren’t the nicest of affairs. At best, elections are competitions where the accompanying rhetoric can, and often does, take a nasty turn. But when elections bring […]
Friday Daddy Blogging… Miriam
As Hendrick Hertzberg points out, for people like Althouse the only significant form of racism left in America appears to be the racism of liberals who patronize black people (by electing them preside