It’s true that we dodged a bullet during the Democratic primaries when the prospect of Mark Penn running the White House political shop didn’t come to pass. Unfortunately, Obama’s political team seems about as incompetent. As DeLong says, it’s especially remarkable that Obama’s political team is urging a focus on cosmetic, short-term deficit rather than […]
Month: July 2010
So, we finally struggled through the final season of the Tudors. It’s been clear for some time (say, early in season one) that this was not a series that deserved attention in the same family
Jeremy Young has an excellent post on blogging, peer review, and tenure/promotion decisions in the academy. The post is similar in focus to the presentation I delivered on the Carpenter-Drezner-Walt p
Cliff Lee would sure look pretty in a Reds uniform…
John Elwood, with respect to the trend toward more recess appointments by the president, and especially the recent intrasession appointment of Donald Berwick: It is certainly not without controversy,
So, we have essentially completed the long-extended transition from Blogger to WordPress. Regular readers over the past few months know that this transition has not gone particularly well. In particul
Spencer, noting the recent research indicating that civilian deaths in Afghanistan generate hostility towards the United States: Additionally, some in the military consider a preoccupation with civilian casualties to be a media-driven phenomenon. Last December, the Air Force’s intel chief, Lieutenant General David Deptula, told Danger Room’s Noah Shachtman that “there appears to be an […]
Dean Baker takes the shears to David Brooks before flaying him and turning his skin into a nice hat: [Saith Brooks,] “The Demand Siders don’t have a good explanation for the past two years.
Really, really good story about Mariano Rivera. Given the degraded quality of Honus Wagner’s competition, I think the choosing the best closer of all time is easier than any other position, espe
Like Matt, I think that Carr has the Post dead to rights on its double standards. A couple additional points: The analogy is pretty direct. If I understand, the justification for firing Weigel was that you couldn’t expect Weigel to cover Matt Drudge if he wrote mean emails about him. Milbank’s beat involves covering the […]
So apparently yesterday (or apparently not, but whatever; details…) was the day that Doc selected for his trip to the future at the end of the first Back to the Future. The series did a reasonab
This seems optimistic: As you may have heard, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is in the news again, and not in a good way, with reports of a speech he made in Connecticut referri