Nice to see Bob Somerby on board:Again, when we talk about what is “appealing” and authentic,” we enter extremely subjective territory. And oh yeah—we validate the type of discussion the mainstream press corps is eager to have. Once we allow this type of discussion, they...
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Travel day today, so very light blogging. In the meantime, enjoy Roy nominating Dr. Mrs. Ole Perfesser for a Robert Bork "It's the Sociological Significance" award, and 3 Bulls having.
GFR has a clever post about George Bush's one contribution to human discouse, the "fantasy tense." I think that Ken Pollack should be speaking in this tense full-time....see also Fred.
Hugh Hewitt files a last-minute entry in the Golden Winger nominations, Soggy Biscuit division:And that’s why every president, whether you like him or not, deserves a Doris Kearns Goodwin, who will go back there…and you don’t get it for a hundred fifty years, unfortunately, because...
Recently, Yglesias asked if he should feel guilty for preferring Let's Go to any 2006 album. I completely reject the premise of the question--would anybody feel guilty for thinking that.
Henley has today's edition. IOZ beat me to it as well, but this bit in particular deserves to have its 5-year waiting period waived and be granted immediate induction into.
As a quick follow-up to Rob's post below, I think Publius adds a critical point: the odds of a similarly draconian sentence if the race of the victim and perpetrator were reversed are extremely low. I particularly recommend this follow-up post, about the Warren Court...
People who have seen my writings about Ralph Nader will not be surprised that I tend to be skeptical of "heighten the contradictions" arguments. As such, I'm afraid that on.
Via Yglesias, how about this from Josef Joffe's review of the Mark Steyn's ode to xeonpohibic contempt for liberal democratic values in New York's most irrelevant financial sinkhole:Mark Steyn, the.
Labs already beat me to this profoundly difficult ethical dilemma that Randy Cohen chose this week:Last Christmas, I took my grandchildren to “The Nutcracker,” a ballet I love. My enjoyment was severely marred by the appearance of a black snowflake and then, even worse, a...
Judith Regan canned. Fortunately, this happened after she greenlighted a new book by Douglas Feith, whose thoughts couldn't possibly be more credible in the current context...
Ted Barlow emails to remind me that Christopher Hitchens has also constantly made Goldbergesque "Meaningless Horrible Baseline" arguments since he became an apologist for the Iraq war. A Frayster named.