Yglesias notes that, for the first time in nearly a half century, an Ohio governor appointed an all-white cabinet. It should be unnecessary to point out that, in 2011, a governor of a state with around 1.3 million African American residents who appoints a cabinet that looks like this is doing so for a specific […]
Author: Paul Campos
Now that my beloved University of Michigan football program has been hijacked and destroyed by a meglo-maniacal erstwhile purveyor of crappy pizza, I’m looking for my pigskin thrills elsewhere.
Gabrielle Giffords. Update: Sarah Palin and gun fetishism. We can only imagine what would happen if the shooter turned out to be a young Muslim. Since he appears to be a white guy it’ll be proba
Alomar was a slam dunk once the idiot “first ballot” convention was dispensed with, and his name was on 90% of the ballots. Blyleven’s election (79.8%) is a bit of a tribute to the power of saber-knowledge. Others: Larkin 62%, Morris, 53.5%, Lee Smith 45%, Bagwell 41.3%, Raines 37%, Trammell 24.3%. McGwire was named on […]
For some reason this reminds me of John McKay’s comment immediately after he had coached Tampa Bay to one in a string of 26 straight losses, and he was asked what he thought of his team’s
Glenn Greenwald’s observations about how, in the context of the Wikileaks story, the usual symbiotic relationship between our government and Big Media is moving toward something like organic uni
Michael Lind asks if anyone in America believes in the rule of law? It’s a good question, but his response to it reveals it’s a much tougher one to answer than he imagines. First, he excoriates “most of the American left” for defending Wikileaks and Julian Assange: For Assange’s admirers, the embarrassment that his publication […]
It seems clear Manning, who has never been convicted of a crime, is being tortured for the purpose of destroying his ability to resist his captors, so that his subsequent testimony will make it possib
In America, jokes write themselves!
I have a piece at the Daily Beast about the ACA decision which suggests some reasons to be skeptical. I’m particularly interested in the assertion that the professional quality — as measured by the craft values of the legal profession — of the arguments in SCOTUS opinions has or at least in certain circumstances can […]
John Boehner was blubbering on 60 Minutes last night about something or the other, which a nice illustration of how it’s OK for macho Republican men to secrete strategic tears as fast as the Ara
Thirty years ago tonight John Lennon was murdered by a mentally ill fan. By a simple twist of fate the story was broken by sportscaster Howard Cosell during a ABC Monday Night Football telecast. After