If God talks to you that's called schizophrenia.So observed Thomas Szasz, in his interesting if extreme critique of the concept of mental illness.Nevertheless, some people actually are certifiably nuts. And we're going to be hearing a lot from them in the next few years. Just...
Author: Paul Campos
This reads like a not-very-well-done parody of how the elite media reflect and magnify cultural obsessions with weight through pseudo-scientific musings about the supposed "obesity" epidemic.(Shorter version: Because individual birds.
El Tinklenberg, who is running for the Minnesota congressional seat currently occupied by professional lunatic Michele Bachmann, saw his campaign bring in nearly half a million dollars in the 24.
The McCain campaign has devolved into a machine that spits out the most amazing lies at a breakneck pace. Consider this "interview" (aka as an unpaid political advertisement) on Fox News this morning:John McCain: I'm very pleased with what happened at the debate, because it...
ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator John McCain today will deliver the following remarks as prepared for delivery at the McCain-Palin 2008 rally in Concord, NC, at 11:00 a.m. ET:It's great.
You can smell it in the air: tonight was the unofficial end of the 2008 presidential race. For Obama it smells like victory. Meanwhile the McCain campaign is now unmistakably.
Ah, democracy. McCain is so screwed that people who actually believe the lies in his most vile attack ads still won't vote for him:I just got an astounding email from a Republican consultant I know well. He's a guy who's always thought Obama had a...
It looks increasingly likely that the McCain-Palin ticket will go down to a crushing defeat three weeks from today. One perennial trope of American political journalism is that once a.
If you're an old-style Bill Buckley paleo-conservative I would guess you'd have to go back to about November 1964 to find a worse month.After a generation of your political party.
Dave and Hilzoy have noted some concerns on the part of our friends on the Right that Barack Obama may not actually be what he appears to be -- a centrist Democrat with the most mild of reformist impulses -- but rather a secret radical...
I wouldn't bother with this subject except for the fact that Sullivan is both very widely read and published on the Atlantic's web site, so he's sort of kosher from.
Who is 68 today in minus space time or plus soul time.Random thoughts:(1) Lennon's murder may have had more emotional impact on me than any other public event (I was.