Shorter Verbatim Glenn Reynolds: "Of course, if we seized the Saudi and Iranian oil fields and ran the pumps full speed, oil prices would plummet, dictators would be broke, and poor nations would benefit from cheap energy. But we'd be called imperialist oppressors, then." (via...
Author: Scott Lemieux
As many people have pointed out, Tom Frank's review of Joe Klein is in fact pure gold from beginning to end. I think this is the key to understanding his.
Mahablog summarizes the evidence. But, obviously, when it comes to being Tough in the War on Terra (TM) actually stopping terrorists is so much less important than your willingness to.
Shorter Verbatim John J. Miller: "The last time Young grabbed my attention was shortly after 9/11, when he come out with a song called "Let's Roll." I really, really wanted to like it. But it's hard to get around the fact that it's a plodding...
The multi-million dollar federal lawsuit filed against blogger Lance Dutson for a post critical of the advertising agency hired by the state of Maine is indeed highly disturbing. As Jarvis.
Via someone who found the post in question doing a search at google.ca for "should we ban cars" (?), I found out that Canadian Google has a translation function. Finally,.
Sweet fancy Moses, a film version of Atlas Shrugged? I dunno about you, but to me a film based on an interminable novel that consists almost entirely of position-paper wielding characters (and occasionally the narrator) expostulating a silly philosophical framework and its null-hypothesis strawmen ranks...
Finally, the formula for the contemporary GOP has been discovered...
Two brief points about Ryan Lizza's terrific article (free with registration) on no-things-can-actually-get-worse GOP frontrunner George Allen, which will undoubtedly generate an enormous amount of discussion: Since there will be.
Since I've already addressed the stupidity of trying to draw broad sociological conclusions based on such data, all I can add to TBogg's analysis of Roger Simon's attempts to make some broad sociological claim about The Left based on claims about relative sales that aren't...
Shorter Verbatim FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock, justifying the political denial of over-the-counter status for Plan B: "...we could not anticipate, or prevent extreme promiscuous behaviors such as the medication taking.
I'm generally a fan of Keith Hernandez as a color commentator, and certainly the Cohen/Hernandez combo is infinitely preferable to the Michael Kay horror show at Al-Yankeezera. I even once.