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...
Author: Scott Lemieux
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.
Hackery just doesn't get much more hackish than Roger L. Simon. This is the kind of thing that happens when you don't actually care about movies, but just like using them as a pretext to share various half-cooked reactionary bromides.
Although I don't fully agree, I think ogged has a point about acting and The Wire. It's a really, really, outstanding show, and getting better too. But part of me.
My reaction to the decision to make Plan B available over-the-counter to women over the age of 18 was positive. And, in a sense, it still is; the current policy.