Perdro out for the season. And the NL playoffs keep getting more interesting...
Author: Scott Lemieux
The vote national disgrace tally doesn't seem to be up on Thomas yet. According to Lederman:Democrats voting in favor included Carper, Johnson, Landrieu, Lautenberg [!!], Lieberman[Seriously, Go Fuck Yourself Joe--Why.
Yglesias and ogged ask about the constitutionality of the Arbitrary Detention and Torture Act of 2006. I wish I had good news, but...On the Habeas Corpus issue, the Constitution is.
A full list of the Senators who have disgraced themselves and their country by removing any meaningful constraints on the President's ability to detain and torture anybody at his whim by suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus: Alexander (R-TN)Allard (R-CO)Allen (R-VA)Bennett (R-UT)Bond (R-MO)Brownback (R-KS)Bunning (R-KY)Burns...
Crooked Timber recently had a post asking what would have happened had the northern framers refused to go along with a Constitution that protected slavery. To posit a counterfactual at.
A few baseball notes: As a commenter notes, Billy Beane has somehow won another division title, not only with a low payroll but with their ace starter limited to 34.
Shorter Jonah Goldberg: Remember, it's not a lie...if you believe it. I can't decide what's more incoherent; Goldberg in torture, or Reynolds on leaks. (Actually, in a way, Reynolds' position on leaking is perfectly consistent: if it helps the political interests of the Bush administration,...
Wow, Marty Peretz really is a piece of work. First, you get the Peretz attempt to be witty ("It is true that for a few years in recent times I.
Heh. Indeed.My favorite, I think, is this one. Yeah, those who claimed there would be a "quagmire" in which Iraq descended into civil war while huge numbers of troops remained.
"Terrorism policy, terrorism schmolicy--who does his socks?"Michael Lewis' much-discussed book Moneyball has, I think, often been misunderstood. It's most often discussed as being about statistical analysis, or disdaining speed for power, or some specific conception of how baseball should be played. I think this is...
Shorter Dan Riehl: This picture of the professor and his wife proves that he must have been--just like several other people--lying about the racism of a guy who admired the.
One thing worth noting about the Eric Boehlert piece that's being widely discussed is that it focuses on the Blumenthal book. At least based on the Salon columns I read,.