Trapper John notes that Mike Ditka was one hell of a bad football coach. Hopefully the people of Chicago will remember this in November. I’m inclined to think that they will; Ditka will put a very quick end to the “celebrity slate” of the Republican Party. He’s no Arnold.
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Check out the latest Zogby. Things looking very decent. The next four months are going to be murder. Can’t get too optimistic, because I don’t want to go through the next four years in a
Here’s Digby on the various plans of the administration to provide continuity-in-government in case of disaster, including the the potential postponement of elections. Here’s Meteor B
Just finished screening The Third Man for my World Politics class, got me to think about cinema’s greatest villains. A few of my favorite that leaped to mind: Harry Lime, Orson Welles, The Third Man Noah Cross, John Huston, Chinatown Frank, Henry Fonda, Once Upon a Time in the West Hank Quinlan, Orson Welles, Touch of Evil […]
Here’s a dialogue between Tacitus and Steve Sailer. Sailer insists that racial inequality is based on biology, and Tacitus drops the hammer on him. More commentary from Orcinus. Maybe the NYT
Fred Kaplan at Slate discusses the Army’s conclusions about the first stages of the Iraq II. From a very cursory glance, seems pretty accurate to me. We have all seemed to forget that the in
World O’ Crap has been analyzing Family Circus cartoons as a running gag. Check this out.
Add me to the draft Ehrenreich campaign. This is one damn fine column. With the Repubs starting to fire up their “class warfare” crap against Edwards, it’s important to remember w
Slow day at LGM, no posts attacking Ralph Nader or warning of Iranian nukes. I wonder if there’s a way we could solve both of those problems at once. . . The UW Political Science Department soft
From Juan Cole: One of the scandals that has been reported but hasn’t really broken yet is the way in which Halliburton gained contracts to provide services to US troops in an emergency but has been unable actually to provide those services. The summer of 2003 was hell on the troops because they had no quonset […]
Apparently, all intelligence failures related to the Iraq War are the fault of the CIA. Never mind that the neocons set up an independent intelligence operation in the Pentagon because the CIA estima
Poor Man has a list. It’s a good list, most notably because he has Kevin Smith at #1. As the title implies, however, I kind of like Pi and Requiem for a Dream, so I can’t agree with the i