Shorter Daniel Henninger: We're stuck with awful television like The Sopranos and Deadwood because of that damned Supreme Court and its insistence that upholding "generally accepted standards of conduct" isn't a sufficient basis for censorship.No, really:Comedians will do whatever works, so if they are now...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Nitpicker has the roundup. Next week's LA Times column will defend J-Pod by pointing out that while in retrospect Cinderella Man was really more of a crappy Hallmark movie-of-the-week melodrama.
Via Drum, I see that Jonah Goldberg is arguing that you can't make an omelet without throwing a few people out of planes, and that the baseline for measuring the.
Via Redbeard, I see that forth-rate novelist, global warming denialist, xenophobe, and Bush Administration scientific consultant Michael Crichton inserted a child rapist named after the New Republic's Michael Crowley (who had dismantled Crichton's anti-scientific propaganda) into his new novel. Classy!
"I was living in Madison, WI, which was not at the time a federal offense. Despite that, the Bush administration held me without charges and tortured me for three years..
Peter Boyle, R. I. P....Norbiz has the whole scene linked here.
Hadley Arkes, one of the pro-life movement's most prominent intellectuals, has an article in First Things about the upcoming "partial birth" abortion decision. It starts off strangely with the claim that "people on both sides seriously expect the Court will use its decision to overturn...
Although I had been intending to ignore the passel of right-wingers with one actual moderate that comprised the Weblog Awards' "best centrist blog" category, I must shift course and heartily.
I acknowledge that there are good reasons not to support Al Gore in the '08 primaries, and the question is looking increasingly moot anyway. I would like to think, however,.
Dr. Mrs. Ole Perfesser and commenters. What I enjoy most is the men who, if women who start thinking that they have the right to deny sex if they don't feel like it and similar crazy feminist guff don't shape up, they'll...stop dating them! ("Rather,...
I discuss, and (support it) here, and Ezra joins the discussion here. Having slept on it, I think that, if anything, I was too qualified. I was sort of making.
There's plenty of amusement here--starting with the fact that Mickey Kaus gets significant support for "favorite left-of-center (sic) blogger, while Andrew Sullivan finishes second in the "most annoying left-of-center (sic).