To make a shameful admission of my own, I have to admit that Roy made it considerably further through 100 Years of Solitude ("could have done with less magic and more realism") than I have managed in multiple attempts. And to ratchet the shame even...
Author: Scott Lemieux
I'm...well, not surprised, but still have some capacity for irritation at the fact that CNN continues to employ an abject bigot hasn't gotten more attention. Hilzoy takes the opportunity to.
Admittedly, it's probably not quite on the level of David Hager or Leon Kass. But the Bush administration has dug up yet another anti-choice crackpot to serve as Deputy Assistant.
149-86 was the vote. Given what I know, he seems like the better of the two highly suboptimal alternatives.
Shorter New Republic editorial board: "OK, we "regret" our support for the Iraq war, but not in ways that lead us to seriously question the underlying theoretical or empirical assumptions.
I see Carville is continuing his ridiculous crusade against the DNC chair who presided over a Congressional victory nobody could have plausibly foreseen a year ago. The key graf is.
Patterico on Bush sending some of his most unqualified wingnut appointments back to the Senate again: "polls show that Americans like cautious judges who hew closely to the text of the Constitution and relevant statutes." Indeed! So I think we can all agree then that...
Don Surber: "[Mitch McConnell] was the guy who not only opposed McCain-Feingold, but took it to court. Unfortunately, the first woman Supreme Court justice ignored the First Amendment and upheld.
A Republican-led panel in Missouri has claimed that illegal immigration is caused by...abortion. But I'm not sure why they're stopping there: if they banned birth control, that would really stop.
Shorter Verbatim Grover Norquist: "Bob Sherwood's seat would have been overwhelmingly ours, if his mistress hadn’t whined about being throttled." Yeah, what a tragedy that these moral giants no longer control Congress.
Trent Lott: the #2 Senate Republican. Maybe the GOP will now make Jeff Sessions the RPC chair too, just like Red State wants. I forget if it was Atrios or.
As you would expect, it takes Glenn Reynolds to really push the Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics to sublime heights of lunacy. Does the deteriorating situation in Iraq prove, say,.