What Steve M. and Charles say about the increasingly embarrassing Michael Kinsley and his one remaining belief -- that everyone is as vacuously cynical as he is. (Well, OK, there's also his apparently sincere belief that political leaders need to meet his exacting aesthetic standards.)...
Month: March 2012
I would like to think this is a satire of wingnut racism and sexism, but alas: Darleen Click must be upset that she didn't think of this first... In related.
While there's a very long time left between now and November and while on the local and congressional level, Republicans may survive, or even take the Senate while retaining the.
I was invited by 17 Stanford Law School student groups to give a talk on the law school scam, in the wake of increasing concerns that even at elite law schools the cost of attendance is approaching or has reached levels that make the decision...
Over at the Prospect I wade into the debate about the use of caucuses in the presidential selection process. I think the current system works tolerably well, although I don't.
I'm trying to think of a more counterproductive headline, but I am a man of limited imagination: Learning that Obama introduced Derrick Bell in a charming and polite manner is.
So I've mentioned before that the final project in my class is a creative one in which students must occupy the position they've been analyzing all quarter–that of the meaning-making rhetor communicating something or other to a particular audience. Because I'm working with graphic novels, one...
I'm a bit late with this, but for the love of the Angel Moroni, the eventual Republican presidential nominee is talking some dubious shit: Beginning Nov. 4, 1979, dozens of.
Every election cycle brings back the fetishizing of the increasingly non-existent family farm. When combined with the Republican ardor for bombing brown people who could potentially have weapons of mass.
Amanda Marcotte has an outstanding essay on how poorly the Republican Party understands American attitudes toward women and sex. In part: As for the second one, this is where the Republicans really misfired. They really overestimated public antipathy towards privileged adult women having sex while...
In my final Over the Horizon column, I discuss the future of American hegemony: The most important step for the U.S. to take is to gain the acquiescence, grudging or.
Long time mainstay of the milblogger community Neptunus Lex has passed: Authorities say a pilot for a defense contractor is dead after an Israeli-made military fighter jet crashed at Fallon.