To elaborate on a point I made in passing below, I'm frankly puzzled about why Matt has switched sides on the merits of filibustering Alito, which remains the obviously correct option. I think both of the arguments he seems to be making are incorrect: The...
Author: Scott Lemieux
I thought about coming up with my own questions for the Alito hearings, but to be frank the hearings are unlikely to produce any valuable information, and so we should.
Orrin Hatch: we should vote to confirm Alito because...he's a baseball fan. (I admit that it's his best feature.) But you know who else was a big baseball fan? Harry.
Joe Klein, on the other hand, does do it for a living. Klein, discussing the NSA program, rolls out his usual "let me project my increasingly reactionary politics on the American public so I can pretend the Dems are losing because they disagree with me"...
For some reason, I wasn't terribly enthusiastic about seeing Capote. I sort of thought it was my duty to see it, but it was mostly based on seeing Hoffman, who.
A surprisingly tough NYT editorial about Alito which starts well:Judicial nominations are not always motivated by ideology, but the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito certainly was. President Bush's previous choice.
Oh, a rare and welcome thing, an article about people who actually like living in cities and actually value things other than the square footage of the house they can purchase:But those plotting a hasty exit to the suburbs (the space! the schools! the space!)...
Taking the war over The Shape That Hates America to new depths of insanity, John Rawls' idiot son Alec has come up with a sheer masterpiece of wingnuttery. According to.
It is, indeed, about the ingredients. Stop at Whole Paycheck on the way home after a movie, and one can make even a Friday night pathetically spent at home watching.
I see that Mallard Fillmore is making Mickey Kaus his liberal strawman in his inevitable attack on Brokeback Mountain. (Maybe Tinsely is still permanently scarred by a past in which he was a cabdriver or movie usher: "Each night when I return the cab to...
Not that it will matter to Schmittian conservertarians or people of the Althouse "all that matters is whether he will restrict individual rights competently" school, but a systematic Knight-Ridder study.
While I generally don't see any value in the use of the term "chickenhawk," like Tom Tomorrow I'm certainly willing to make an exception for people who think that cutting-and-pasting.