This discussion thread reminds me that I didn't get to Jason DeParle's atypically weak NYT piece about marriage is a ticket out of poverty. One benefit of waiting is that I can outsource my commentary to Katha Pollitt, Lindsay Beyerstein, and E.J. Graff. The whole...
Month: July 2012
Vote suppression laws are more common in swing states. Ann Althouse is unconcerned: Weiser's argument doesn't prove as much as she'd like, because it's also true that it's in swing.
The latest Drew Westen article has the same fundamental problems as every other Drew Westen article. There is, however, one howler that's particularly instructive. Starting with the stimulus makes sense,.
Who knew that Humpty Dumpty was the secret Koch Brother? A fantastic class war film from 1936 by the great Dave Fleischer.
Bryan Caplan is a terrible person. Now you might say that I am too mean to the Koch-funded George Mason economist. After all, he might not beat his dog. But.
Here's a fascinating series of photographs from a book on the Soviet bomb program. Someday, I would love to see a big coffee table book of pictures like these from.
[It appears the only site that had this available was scuttled in December 2010. I first read a version of this during my BBS days, but as you can tell from DISADVENTURE!, DISADDENDUM!, DISMORALIZED!, DISINSOMNIA!, WHARTON!, GRADING! and DISBELIEF! the form stuck with me. It's...
If you don't care whether Batman's not a spanked up Newt or not, that's fine. Fine. But riddle me this: people in Mississippi are still apparently racist. What do you.
I saw a remarkable documentary on IFC yesterday, The Art of the Steal, which is the fascinating story of how the Barnes collection ended up in a museum in downtown.
On this date in 1970, the United Farm Workers achieved its greatest victory, ending its five-year grape boycott after growers agreed to a contract, the first in the history of California farm labor. Farm workers lived pretty tough lives. The itinerant nature and physical stress...
Condolences to Kevin.
Atrios gets at fundamentals: It isn't quite as extreme, but there are a lot of similarities between now and the Iraq debate. All of the Cool Kids know how fucking.