DeLong explains hackery, complacent reactionary contrarian division.
Author: Scott Lemieux
As Ezra notes, Katherine Harris' laugh-a-minute campaign--which is particularly amusing in light of the steady stream of GOP arguments that she was a great public official while she was handing.
Shorter Verbatim Glenn Reynolds: "I keep hearing about real-wage stagnation, but everyone I know who has a business complains that they can't get enough decent help even when they raise.
Shorter wingnuts: the failure of the national media to immediately label the crazed actions of someone with severe mental problems enraged by a fight with his mother an act or terrorism with no evidence other than the perpetrator's ethnicity doesn't prove that we're drooling racists--it...
Shorter Ross Douthat: Frat boys would have never engaged in lewd, vulgar behavior or the sexual exploitation of women if it wasn't for those meddling feminists and Milton scholars who.
Glenn Greenwald has a good post about Richard Posner's interview with fellow lapsed libertarian Glenn Reynolds and Helen Smith. I find Posner's arguments troubling in many respects, although I would.
Les Nesman was a prophet. Admittedly, the post-9/11 version would involve the Patton side running over the Murrow side with a steamroller, but you can't predict everything!With a pointless Dylan list imminent, I should also note that you can knock Infidels all you like, but...
Jill points us to this Linda Greenhouse article about the decline in female clerks at the Supreme Court. While I concede Eugene Volokh's point that you can't read too much.
Big Number of Blogs Matt gets it exactly right:This, I think we can assume, is the fall campaign. The idea is to psyche the Democrats out. To make them think.
s.z., writing about Mark Steyn's upcoming book, notes this curious argument from the jacket: "The future, as Steyn shows, belongs to the fecund and the confident. And the Islamists are both, while the West--wedded to a multiculturalism that undercuts its own confidence, a welfare state...
I'm a little leery of the California compact to give its electoral college votes to the winner of the popular vote, not because of principle but because of my distrust.
Speaking of Spike Lee, the parts of his Katrina doc I saw suggest a first-rate piece of work, and the whole thing will air Tuesday evening. As far is the.