New Orleans (+3) at Chicago: Like all decent people with no a priori rooting interest, I'll be rooting for the Saints, so take my pick with a grain of salt. But Chicago's defense is monumentally overrated (as the game they should have lost last week...
Author: Scott Lemieux
But were any schools painted today?On one of the deadliest days for United States forces since the Iraq war began, an American helicopter crashed in a Sunni area north of.
...Clinton is in....I think Hilzoy has about the right take on the merits. I should also say that I don't think she has much chance of winning the Dem nomination;.
Ezra presents a very useful summary of critiques of Charles Murray in light of his latest repellent op-ed. To add to this, I've put excerpts from the New Republic symposium on The Bell Curve online here and here. Murray claims that his belief that the...
Brad Plumer offers more evidence for Josh Marshall's thesis that McCain is dead. They're right. Essentially, McCain was always a longshot for the Republican nomination because (as 2000 demonstrated) he.
Submitted without comment, the opening grafs of a NYT "Homes" section article:FOR some people, the most elusive aspect of owning a vacation home that sits beyond big-city borders isn’t finding.
Shorter Glenn Reynolds and Don Surber: "Only Luddites believe that drug companies should disclose payoffs to doctors and advertising; everyone knows that if drug companies didn't make unlimited profits from copycat drugs, then R&D would effectively cease, just like in Canada. Except for that new...
I'm still behind, so it will be a little bit before I can get an arbitrarily numbered film list out (come to think of it, I haven't even done 2005.
OK, so the New York Times publishes a monumentally idiotic (and egregiously sexist) article about the fashion choices of female political leaders. No allegedly seriously blogger (with a tendency to.
In TAPPED comments, Bob Somerby directs is to this 2002 op-ed from Virignia's newly elected Senator:Other than the flippant criticisms of our "failure" to take Baghdad during the Persian Gulf War, one sees little discussion of an occupation of Iraq, but it is the key...
I note here that Al Gore's pre-war remarks hold up rather better than the predictions of the war's cheerleaders, despite attempts to claim that everyone was equally wrong. Atrios does.
Ezra points us to Julian Sanchez's excellent rebuttal to Megan McArdle's claim that critics of the war were just a wrong as the supporters. For my part, it's somewhat difficult.