Steve Gilliard has passed away. It seems inconceivable to me, and he will be missed sorely by all who knew him. Condolences to his friends and family, who provided such staunch support throughout his illness....Jane has a remarkably eloquent tribute....Julia, TPNH, and the Talking Dog...
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Marcy: "you've got to feel sorry for Mike Allen and the Politico. He's not going to be the same reporter without his best source." Indeed. Of course, when your job.
With things already looking bad, I had to keep turning away from yesterday's Sox/Yankees fiasco because Kay wouldn't shut up about poor Slappy and how he's being unfairly criticized. I.
Matt has one obvious rejoinder to David Brooks's pean to the mediocre character actor and undistinguished one-term+ Senator who seems to be the GOP's New Fresh Hope for '08. So instead I'll take issue with Brooks praising Thompson because "[h]e’s going back to Madison and...
Simon Lazarus and Rochelle Bobroff have more on Alito in the wake of his casting the decisive vote in the awful Ledbetter decision:In the meantime, they can expect more opinions.
The U.S. Attorney had to know he was in trouble with the Bush administration. What was his offense, you might ask? Corruption? Refusing to prosecute serious crimes? Hitting on Laura.
The small band of people arguing that Sam Alito would be anything but a catastrophe for liberal constitutional values had very few arguments available to them, given the overwhelming evidence that he would be (including the extremely high esteem in which Alito is held by...
"You ask for a miracle, I give you...Armando Benitez." Between the beautiful day and the Perez/Lincecum matchup, I made am impulse decision to buy Mets tickets yesterday (even with the.
I've been meaning to comment on the odious comments of MeMe Roth (see Lindsay and zuzu), but Professor B. beats me to it, cutting to the heart of the issue:This.
As Ruth Bader Ginsburg notes, the evidence of gender discrimination in the case of Ledbetter v. Goodyear, decided today by the Supreme Court, is unambiguous:Lilly Ledbetter was a supervisor at Goodyear Tire and Rubber’s plant in Gadsden, Alabama, from 1979 until her retirement in 1998....
I understand that it's politically difficult to institute the kinds of policies--most importantly energy taxes--that would be necessary to substantially reduce carbon emissions. But one good first step would be.
General J.C. Christian kindly consoles Ace O. Spades, heterosexual, over the latest humiliation of the wingnutosphere's Junior Detective division:I see Greenwald is doing it to you again, and frankly, I'm.