According to twitter, Whitney Houston has died. Also according to AP, which means that it may actually be true. Regarding the media circus which shall ensue within the next hours, I'll simply link to this. I won't watch any of the coverage of her passing;...
Month: February 2012
On this date in 1937, the Flint Sit-Down strike ended after General Motors recognized the United Auto Workers at the bargaining agent for GM employees. This titanic victory legitimized the.
I love the small update added to the extensive analysis (largely consisting of assumptions that feminists are total sellouts, because after all they just loved that recent Plan B decision).
How does a guy like Skip Bayless keep working? Actually, I guess I know. He combines pugnacity with a complete lack of shame. I guess that makes good TV for a company like ESPN that has no interest in accountability or intelligence. In a related...
If denying people important medical benefits to advance religious values essentially no non-celibate Catholic believes in is the hill Republicans want to die on, they can go right ahead. As.
I'm a committed Mittens inevitabalist, but for those of you who would like to see a real race, the case for Santorum exploding all over the Republican Party...
Yesterday Dalia Lithwick had an excellent column on the lack of actual arguments from the anti-marriage equality forces. This was certainly in evidence to anyone watching the debate in the Washington house of representatives earlier this week. With the outcome not in doubt, the defenders...
The United States Navy has named a new Littoral Combat Ship, and Spencer is displeased: So. You’ve got a clunker — a floating Bradley Fighting Vehicle — that you’ve invested.
I rarely disagree with Brother Pierce on non-Billy Beane related issues, but I'm afraid that I must demur this time. In addition to what I've already said, a couple points..
...I suggest we add "conservatives rapping": After all, there's nothing wrong with a "knicker" joke among a room of wealthy white Republicans and that one black guy. UPDATE: Also. UPDATE II: For the sake of comparison, here's your modern conservative movement in two images. First,...
Yesterday, Marcy Wheeler wrote a post pointing out that two of the six Americans confirmed killed by drone strikes were servicemen, a pair of Marines killed during a close air.
I wasn't thrilled when I heard that Obama was going to announce a "compromise" on contraceptive coverage either, but as it turns out the "accommodation" does not affect the substantive.