Group A: People who argue that the individual mandate in the ACA is unconstitutional because it must be unconstitutional to force people to “purchase a private product” irrespective of its effect on interstate commerce. Group B: People who strongly support gutting Social Security and replacing to with a system where people are forced to purchase […]
Month: February 2011
The quality of justifications of anti-gay and lesbian rights bigotry from our particularly inept trolls vs. The quality of justifications of anti-gay and lesbian rights bigotry made by actual elected
Definitely going the full wingnut. Maybe he can interpose himself between gay and lesbian troops and their base. If they can dig him up, the 2012 GOP frontrunner.
I know, I know: more Mad Men. This will have to tide you over. Now, something lumbering as quickly as a zombie wouldn’t seem to pose much of a threat, so it goes without saying that turning them into something threatening would entail speeding them up or increasing their numbers unto ubiquity. In the former […]
I will grant that there’s a certain courage in a Kentucky Senator lauding Cassius Marcellus Clay over Henry Clay: “As long as I sit at Henry Clay’s desk, I will remember his lifelong desire
Adam Weinsten has written a delicious appraisal of my friend Dan’s newest book, “Theory of International Politics and Zombies.” I think he’s mostly spot-on, particularly his genealogy of Drezn
…a case can be made that this year’s Super Bowl ads were marginally less sexist than last year’s. Still, whenever Eminem is a relief from misogyny (at least in his second ad) it’s rarely a good sign, and of course Groupon managed to open whole new frontiers of offensiveness.
Since it came up in comments, this empirical data about the effect of the officiating in Super Bowl XL is useful. Overall, you can read actually the bottom line as ammunition for the “get ov
Bill Maher. I think it was the guy who owned the Cowboys back in the 1970s who pointed out that the NFL owners were a group of “28 capitalists who always vote for socialism.” Also, althoug
It’s becoming increasingly clear that the Wilpons are going to have to sell the Mets. I actually believe that the Wilpon and Katz never had direct knowledge that Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme, if only because it was very strongly in their interest not to find out. But the evidence of willful blindness in […]
In this modern version of the AOL/Time Warner merger, AOL is playing the role Time Warner played last time (i.e. older media grossly overpaying for newer media property.)
I know I should lie low for a while, but when the targets are this soft arguments are this remarkably silly*: Could you please read this NYT article very carefully and explain to me how we know it was