You've found the sweet spot; a compromise bill that everyone to the left of Snowe and to the right of Jay Rockefeller can support.I have no idea if Rockefeller would really vote against this bill, and I don't really care. From what I've seen so...
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Matt Duss has a nice post on Jeffrey Goldberg's recent silliness regarding Human Rights Watch. Yesterday Goldberg, following up on a WSJ editorial, gave the impression that by talking about.
I was impressed and was thinking about writing about it, and I may do so at some point, but not today. Some recommended thoughtful commentary:Hugo Schwyzer sees Isiah Berlin and.
Moralistic hand-wringing about steroids is frequently accompanied by somewhat extravagant claims about the dramatic impact they have/had on individual player performances and the game itself. In the thread below, we get this from IB (who generally manages to avoid drug war moralism about steroids in...
I actually know the inventors of this ridiculous product, although I haven't tried it.I can't decide if the possibility they might get very wealthy from this is one of the.
I'm hosting a book salon and discussion with Ben Page, a co-author of Class War? What Americans really think about Economic Inequality, starting right now at firedoglake.
Will Wilkinson approvingly directs me to Jason Kuznicki's half-hearted defense of Peter Thiel's unfortunate musings about the tragic consequences of women's suffrage. Kuznicki basically admits that by publishing Thiel CATO was essentially trolling their own magazine:This issue of Cato Unbound was motivated solely by my...
It's up to John Lynch now. The Democratic-controlled Senate voted 13 to 11 in favor of the bill, but only after a last-minute amendment strengthened language granting legal protections for.
Via DMZ, I learn that this year, the Metro shuttles that connected park and rides to Safeco field before and after Mariners games will no longer exist. The Mariners paid.
Background: John Rawls wrote an undergrad thesis on theology when he was deeply religious. He also wrote an unpublished essay in the 90's on the role religion played in his thought. Thomas Nagel and Josh Cohen are now publishing these essays along with an interpretive...
In comments, LP and geo requested a post about this subject. My purpose is not to make the case; I’m a poor candidate for such a task as I’m not.
Earlier today, Brad Delong observed:At the moment "Fear of Reese Witherspoon Look-Alikes on the Pill" has 116 comments, while "The Geithner Plan FAQ" has only 89 comments. I confess this.