The interesting things about dissertation defenses is, no matter how they turn out you'll want to get drunk afterward...
Author: Scott Lemieux
The grocery store I frequent most often has an ad for the egregious "Fox and Friends" on the mechanical cart. Apparently because it's not quite disingenuous enough, they abjure the "fair.
Roger Ailes recently pointed out an embarrassingly stupid op-ed piece by Wan Julliams, in which he complained about how the vacuous lip service with no changes in policy whatsoever offered.
Brad DeLong has a nice post comparing Ehrenreich in 2000 and 2004. I'm always amused to be reminded some classic Naderite tropes, such as the fact that a conservative justice happened to vote to uphold Roe means that it doesn't matter who's in the White House...
One Steven Zeitchick takes to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to write what might be the stupidest defense of Fox News ever: Yet to call these films propaganda is also.
The NLRB decided today, in a 3-2, straight party-line vote, to claim that since graduate students are students, they are therefore not employees, even if they perform labor services in exchange.
This interview, which will be much blogged about--although I can't see anyone topping Jesse Taylor, so I won't try. But, really, it's worth the free ad. Perhaps better, though, is the tale of Saint Ralph's meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus. For some reason, the CBC isn't...
In the cloture vote today, only 3 Dems crossed: Zig-zag Zell and Nelson, definitive "nominal Democrats," and Robert Byrd. With Byrd, I'm not sure if it's some obscure constitutional principle or.
In the process of tepidly defending the indefensible, Rich Lowry gets something (mostly) right: Andrew Sullivan has been playing increasingly tendentious word games with the labels he applies to supporters and opponents.
The Poor Man provides a handy advance summary of my forthcoming oral defense.
William F. Buckley Jr. in the New York Times Magazine: NYT:It's not fair to blame the press. Some of your most inflammatory comments have been made in your essays and columns. In.
To be the millionth blogger to post about the DeLong/Ehrenreich dispute, I agree with David that DeLong's criticism was in general overwrought. While I do think that some elements of.