I’ll have a piece going up tomorrow [UPDATE: it’s here] on some really bad defenses of the filibuster tomorrow. Since I didn’t have space for this particular one, let’s turn to Eric Posner, who as part of a a defense of the filibuster makes a very unfortunate argument: To provide an extreme example, under a […]
Month: November 2013
If you’re going to write an article about something “feminists” believe, it really should not be based on the arguments of a single feminist who is both highly unrepresentative and m
Interesting stuff from Xavier Marquez: Consider this passage Clendinnen quotes from the Florentine Codex (one of the main sources for pre-conquest Mexica thought and culture), coming after the speech
Keep the members of Willie Nelson’s band in your thoughts today as they were in a serious weather related accident yesterday: One incident injured three members of singer Willie Nelson’s band when their bus struck a pillar on Interstate 30 near Sulphur Springs, about 75 miles northeast of Dallas. Singer Willie Nelson has suspended performances […]
And so this happened. Fact sheet here. Whatever the results, almost certainly better than a) nothing and b) bombing. And this, of course: Amazing what WH will do to distract attention from O-care &mda
My latest at the Diplomat evaluates some friction with offshore balancing: Last week, James Holmes described the ongoing difficulties involved with establishing forward U.S. bases in the Philippines.
Well, this was gruesome. Fortunately, I missed the entire game; by the time my plane landed, it was already into the third quarter. The problem of generating high expectations for a football team is that a two loss season (and the way the Ducks played today, I’m not confident about beating the Beavers) feels like […]
Todd Gitlin says the divestment movement against fossil fuel companies is the best tool we have to stop apocalyptic climate change. What makes me sad is that a) it probably actually is the best tool w
If you were at the James McMurtry show last night in Fall River, Massachusetts, your least favorite intellectually dishonest blogger was there with you. I had forgotten how utterly compelling McMurtry
After the Tarzeen fire and Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh over the past year, killing over 1200 workers in total, European companies subcontracting to those factories have stepped up and built a system of compensation for the families of the dead, the injured, and the unemployed. And that’s a positive. The American companies–not so much: […]
I’m a little late to this wrap up, but both professional and personal obligations have occupied a great deal of my time over the past few weeks. The decks are mostly cleared now, so let’s
While everyone is busy commemorating the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination at the hands of Lee Harvey Oswald, you morons the Mob, the CIA, Castro, the Freemasons, the Rothschilds, Mari