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 The Goodfather Part II was better than any movie released in a given year?--but what's...
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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.
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 the merits I have to side with Sam over Spencer or Rob on this one....
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.
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.
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.
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 whose cliches would have been stale in 1945 than one of the greatest movies ever...
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.