From the Lowry-Ponnuru summation of the debt ceiling/shutdown fight: It is a politics of perpetual intra-Republican denunciation. It focuses its fire on other conservatives as much as on liberals. It takes more satisfaction in a complete loss on supposed principle than in a partial victory, let alone in the mere avoidance of worse outcomes. It […]
Month: October 2013
The title of tonight’s episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead couldn’t have been more misleading: “Isolation” is an episode about the utter lack of isolation in the confined s
My first trolly comment I got was when a commenter called me fat. I wasn’t offended because this is par for the course for any woman who blogs while being female; I was expecting it. The label i
Lou Reed’s Magic & Loss has helped me deal with many an untimely death in my life, and now it must do the same for his. But there are things that we can’t know, Maybe there’s something over there, Some other world that we don’t know about, I know you hate that mystic shit. So […]
Lou Reed died today. He had a liver transplant in May. Brian Eno remarked that, while only 30,000 people bought a copy of the Velvet Underground’s first album, all of them started a band.
John Cole talks about the ACA website pearl-clutchers with characteristic restraint. Rebecca Watson is skeptical about this prank. I am, too. This story made me want to me want to slink off into a cor
“Umpires should refuse to apply clear rule to bail out awful play by catcher who shouldn’t have been in game.” I think we’ve been through this before, but few things drive me crazier than arguments that officials shouldn’t make calls in key situations because this would have been “deciding the game.” If Joyce refused to […]
“Boy, I love it when Fox interferes with World Series games to air inane in-dugout interviews!” Note: this would remain true if “love it” is replaced with “find it remote
Baylor put up 505 yards of total offense against Kansas tonight. In the first half. . . . I just looked up Weis’s contract, and he’s guaranteed $2.5 million per year for five seasons, 2012
Abu Muqawama closes up shop. Six and a half years is forever in blog time. On a separate issue, last night’s Airpower Movie of the Week simul-tweet was a rousing success, at least by the modest metrics I established for the event (stayed awake, made it to the end of the movie). Any ideas for […]
The august senator from Alabama declares war on the NEH funding the H in its name. And with his own name, you can see why he’d be opposed to the government giving money for studying the past.
I wish the economic advisors of Democratic presidents would improve. Sadly, no. Here’s some of what Sperling had to say. He led off with the importance of entitlement cuts. (All emphasis is mine): â