To follow up on Atrios and Ezra, let me carry the stats in this Times article one step further. Let's use their figures to extrapolate government health care spending per capita:United States $2745France $2464Canada $2215Again, our system doesn't just spend far more money than France's...
Author: Scott Lemieux
I really try to be optimistic about things early in the year, and then I see that the Calgary Herald today features eight bloody pages of horoscopes. Weren't there at.
Following up on Josh Marshall's take, Jim Henley notes:And it’s also true that the US and its Iraqi allies chose to try Saddam on one of his relatively minor crimes.
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 of The World Consists of Cabdrivers Who Repeat the Same DLC Cliches I've Written Many...
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.
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 and unfunny dirty jokes from the pages of Playboy has some excellent lines: In the...
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.
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.