As Matt and spackerman note, this collection of bizarre anecdotes and phrenology from Charlotte Allen has to be the dumbest thing published in an American newspaper in many moons. So I guess I can see why she would want to blame it on her gender...
Author: Scott Lemieux
I don't agree with every particular of the argument -- it's a little problematic to tie Hillary Clinton too strongly with her husband's administration (granting that much of the tying.
Brad actually lets the most amazing thing about Richard Cohen's column slide:She seems unknowable, and there is that melancholy Billie Holiday air about her — all those songs about a.
Jeffrey Rosen brings up an interesting point about the judicial options for the next Democratic president. The recent Republican dominance of the White House leaves the Democrats with a very small group within the most desirable target candidates (relatively young, female or Hispanic, significant appellate...
Linda Greenhouse accepts a buyout from the Times. She did very good work. Anybody have guesses about her successor?
Russert is a disgrace. (See also here, here, and here.) It seems to be that Obama handled the ridiculous questions about as well as could be expected.
Various bloggers have reacted negatively to Amy Sullivan's claim that her support of legal abortion can't be labeled "pro-choice" because she believes that abortion is morally problematic. Kevin Drum defends Sullivan, arguing that it's entirely possible for a good pro-choicer to acknowledge the moral complexity...
It seems right that Chris Muir would have his half-undressed fantasy object cite the punchline of a sexist ad campaign for a crappy frat boy malt beverage. Ah, the intertwining.
Why, it's almost as if the talk of liberating Afghani women was a cynical pretext abandoned as soon as they had another shiny new Islamist quasi-state to install!I'm afraid that.
Shorter Verbatim stooge at Veritas Libertas -- Conservative Thought (sic) About Film (sic): "You know what, I’m glad little Miss Julie -Close Gitmo- Christie lost. Acting like a anti-American pig on the red carpet waving her little Canadian flag (White, right?) and bitching about Gitmo…...
My assumption about the Drudge story was that the pictures of Obama dressed in a turban with the racist and/or xenophobic connotations that flow from that was that it was.
A commenter recommends this diary defending the candidacy of Ralph Nader, making an argument I've heard many times before. I agree strongly with the diarist that we should get rid.