Yglesias: So we should just put it down fo the record here. In 2010 when faced with the opportunity to follow all of our important allies down the road of equality, a whole bunch of conservative politicians just decided that their ethics doesn’t make room...
Month: December 2010
Even as a Tim Raines fanatatic, I have to admit that Ron Santo was probably the greatest eligible HOFer to be excluded. And he did it with diabetes. R.I.P..
This is one of many useful questions asked by Vikash Yadav, one of a few commentators this week less interested in what the cables say, whether they should have been.
Right-wing bloggers have named Chris Christie "Conservative of the Year." And, yes, I'd have to agree that demanding federal money for obligations you aren't willing to fulfill and using taxpayer money to defend your ability to break contractual obligations without returning any benefits from said...
Defending a particularly dumb manifestation of her "people who oppose women's rights are the real feminists!" shtick, Althouse redefines liberalism much in the same way and for the same reasons.
Friday Daddy Blogging... Elisha and Miriam
So long as we're beating up on Tom Maguire today, I thought I'd draw your attention to yesterday's avid defense of the vitamin D hype. As most readers are probably aware, seemingly everyone over the past several years has been promoting vitamin D as a...
Have indeed long been a NYT specialty. This week's, though...basing your latest Dowdesque nutty gender theory on...a scene from a (10 year-old!) TV show is particularly special.
Congrats to Darcy and the Secret Society on a well-earned Grammy nomination for the superb Infernal Machines.
While the world continues to scour over the gossip goldmine that is CableGate, here is a genuinely important and disturbing story about DOD behavior in Guantanamo that just surfaced (through normal investigative reporting): The Defense Department forced all "war on terror" detainees at the Guantanamo...
Fred Kaplan is certainly right that McCain's current excuses for flip-flopping on DADT have been exposed as the utter fraud they've obviously always been. As to whether he's run out.
I've been (finally) writing a couple posts, one a 'coming out of hibernation' omnibus, but holy crap, FIFA have challenged the laws of physics with this. I'll have a bit.