Ugh, now I remember why I avoid reading Dowd. Rob, I understand your animus towards Friedman, but Dowd must go first. Could you write a more vapid, gossipy, content-free 800 words than this to win a bet? If I might attempt to offer a summary: Teresa Heinz Kerry is a cold bitch who clearly distains her husband. […]
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It’s always nice to see smart people say something I’ve been saying for years. First, Jacob Levy. A solid lifelong tried-and-true libertarian (something I’ve always wondered how he m
While I generally have more discipline than Rob and Scott about this sort of thing, I had to take a peek and see how our old friend Mickey Kaus was spinning/coping with the Edwards pick. Well, he hasn
As Scott noted, if the GOP wants to use the evil trial lawyer theme, I say bring it on. Let’s actually look at what Edwards did as a trial lawyer, and see what people think. Or, let’s play the trial lawyer vs. oil executive–who’s more popular? game. Kos has a great find in the coming rhetorical war […]
Always nice to see Rupert Murdoch enterprises look stupid. Actually, they almost always looks stupid if you’re paying attention, so I guess I mean it’s nice to see them fuck up so obvious
Let me just say that ever since I said to leave Kerry alone and not worry about the VP pick, I’ve slowly become less and less confident I was right to suggest we trust him. I fully expected the
First question: how many ‘reviews’ of Bill Clinton’s book does the NYT plan on running? We’re up to three now, by my count. Second question: How many times does Larry McMurtry have to utterly fail at his assigned task before people will stop offering him work as a reviewer? Bob Somerby has examined the pathetic […]
It’s becoming clear that while the Bush campaign has spent an awful lot of money on ads, they don’t appear to have gotten much in return. This is, of course, good news, but it also raises
In a discussion on the appropriate ways to talk about the South and southerners on this post esteemed reader and frequent commenter Erik says Third, it’s good that we can’t really make f
Rob and I recently discussed in comments the importance of taking on the best arguments made by people who disagree with you, rather than the worst. This is advice I try to apply to myself whenever possible. The problem is that on many issues, the semi-serious right is just nowhere near as much fun as […]
In a conversation the other day, I expressed the idea that the war in Iraq damaged rather than advanced our war on terrorism, which produced a reaction of surprise and skepticism from the party of the
I refer, of course, to the picture to the right of the story.