My dear friend Brian Mahoney has sent me a remarkably eloquent e-mail; I reprint in its entirety. I've been in a state of shock for the last couple days, reading blogs, news, and emails from friends. I took Wednesday off work and went for a long...
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Erik at Alterdestiny has some good observations about elections in Latin America: Uruguay has just joined a number of nations who have elected left-leaning regimes in the past few years. Venezuela.
As always, Paul Krugman says it better than anyone: President Bush isn't a conservative. He's a radical - the leader of a coalition that deeply dislikes America as it is. Part.
Yesterday, for the first time that I can remember, they replaced CNN with Fox News at the University of Washington Intramural Activities Center. A week ago, I would have raged; now, I can't bring myself to peep.
Lots of good stuff going up at Kos. It's going to be a squeeze. Now off to the bar, where over the next six hours I shall drink either the sweet.
I posted this last month, but find it so powerful that I need to post it again. From Edmund Morgan: In the wake of the many scandals that have disgraced.
Andrew Sullivan dredges up another worthy candidate for worst Kaus ever; his December 5, 2003 post-mortem of the Kerry campaign: Democratic Senator John Kerry, once proclaimed the frontrunner in the press, faces not just defeat but utter humiliation in the New Hampshire primary. Is he...
The hydrogen bomb is fifty-three years old today. Let's hope that its next fifty-three years are as quiet as its last.
Very nice post and discussion thread at Crooked Timber regarding the Lancet 100000 deaths in Iraq estimate. Long story short, I may have been premature in critiquing the study. I suppose.
Via Brad Delong, Daniel Benjamin makes a good case that the failure to kill Zarqawi before the invasion is the single most indefensible decision made by this administration. This doesn't mean that it's the worst or the most destructive, but rather that there is no way of...
Hands down, beyond dispute, this is the worst Kaus ever. Halloween really brings them out. . . Was bin Laden attempting state-by-state blackmail? Safire misses the key aspect of bin Laden's.
Here's something a few old friends of mine threw together. Enjoy.