It’s hard to imagine anything good coming from the Supreme Court’s decision to grant cert in the Wal-Mart class action discrimination case. Republican Supreme Court Justices have been crucial to the long-running Republican project of nominally keeping civil rights statutes on the books while making them as difficult as possible to enforce in practice. This […]
Month: December 2010
I’m not the kind of blogger to get furious about things like Obama’s tax cut cave-in (unnecessary and wrong on the merits though it certainly is) very often because my expectations of pres
Without getting into the debate we’ve been having in comments about his merits as a columnist, I note that Frank Rich’s latest much-praised column makes no sense: THOSE desperate to deciph
My recent trip to Ireland followed up roughly 20 hours spent on airplanes and airpots with the worst allergic reaction I’ve had since junior high school. So it made me particularly happy to come home and see that this blog’s favorite Yankee fan (with one exception) Howard had sent me Thelonious Monk Trios, The Complete […]
I’m confused. Isn’t this how the wingers brought down the Iranian government last year? Well, it turns out that the good people of Facebook-land have made the effort to defeat child abuse
That’s pretty much right. And yet, given that it’s not actually going to prevent the Yankees from signing anyone they really want, and that there aren’t exactly a lot of young championship-quality shortstops lying around, they might as well.
I guess that’s not all. I have BELIEVED. Since Bill Musgrave’s junior year, I have believed that this might be possible. Through Danny O’Neill, and Tony Graziani, Akili Smith and
That is all.
I was busy enough this week to have missed Jezebel’s bizarre decision to run a piece defending catcalling and public groping with a bunch of bullshit about how in France women are less uptight and totally don’t mind the catcalling and groping. As Sady Doyle points out, this is the strangest part of the subsequent […]
Well, this would make letting Teixeira go to the Yanks look a lot better. And while it’s not actually a huge upgrade over last year in terms of performance, I can understand why the Red Sox don&
“OK, so how is this different than us finding out what our friends are saying about other people and then passing that information along to get them mad at each other? Don’t you adults always tell