Following up on Josh Marshall's take, Jim Henley notes:And it鈥檚 also true that the US and its Iraqi allies chose to try Saddam on one of his relatively minor crimes because if they did so they could get him safely hung before they had to...
Author: Scott Lemieux
What better way to spend a slow blogging season than by posting some favorite hatchet jobs? In comments to yesterday's post, many people are bringing up Matt Taibbi's classic review.
Again, I say: Sebelius for VP![Link Fixed.]
As noted by many commenters, the inevitable meltdown as Althouse refuses to acknowledge the plain meaning of her remarks or suggest another coherent one has occurred [no link because she not only refuses to link to anybody she's dishonestly criticizing but whines endlessly when Andrew...
Apropos of nothing, I would like to note that this John Leland [thanks to commenter for the typo correction] review of some compilation of the unread profit-taking by famous authors.
I see that, via various links from this year's Wank of the Year awards, that The Editors's classic Shill Central Station parodies have all been conveniently restored to the intarweb.
Steve Benen points us towards some twelfth-rate agitprop by a sitting judge, which repeatedly uses the term "femifascist," presumably to apply to people who believe that the state shouldn't coerce (poor) women to carry pregnancies to term. Here are some of the other insights offered...
R.I.P. Give him this: he put John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court.
Homer: Ah, not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm!Lisa: That's specious reasoning, Dad.Homer: Thank you, honey.Lisa: By your logic, I could claim that.
The incomparable James Brown, R. I. P....see also this excellent AP obit.
In this holiday season, it's nice to see yet another stinging defeat in the courts for Kansas' former Immolater of Privacy General Phil Kline.
With respect to the Ackerman/Farley/Lemieux debate, a formerly ambivalent Kevin Drum (along with Mona) comes down squarely in the Ackerman camp. Yglesias and Atrios disagree, and of course I still.