It was only a matter of time before Jason Apuzzo, the Lenny Kravitz of right-wing Stalinist aesthetics, weighed in on Brokeback Mountain. And he doesn't disappoint; as TBogg notes, he innovatively combines the "I'm sure this movie is overpraised because the cowboys are gay, although...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Nominations for the 2005 Koufax Awards are up--make sure to send in your favorites. Pretty much every blog on the left (as well as, of course, many that aren't) should.
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There was a terrific article by Anna Wilde Mathews in Monday's Wall Street Journal about how an increasing number of medical journal articles are ghostwritten by drug company PR flacks. Of course, the article wasn't online, and WSJ isn't even on the academic L/N we...
Speaking of torture, Jim Henley has a quite brilliant post noting that the most common justifications for the Iraq war collapse for the same reason that the"ticking time bomb" argument.
There's an interesting discussion taking place about the impeachment of Andrew Johnson on the lawcourts listerv. Sanford Levinson brings up an interesting argument, which is that the general sense that.
The Plank has an amusing account of Andrew Sullivan embarrassing Men in Black clown Mark Levin as the latter demands evidence and then goes on to describe the proffered evidence as "looney," which seems to mean "contradicts the unsubstantiated claims of Mark Levin." Having been...
As a follow-up to my post about Maye and the blogosphere, Angelica suggests some courses of action. And according to Radley Balko the blog divisions of CBS and the National.
Joe Klein. Which reminds me, Klein's incomprehensible ramblings about how the fact people were becoming less secure in there jobs made it particularly important to make people even less secure.
Mark Kleiman makes an important, if depressing, point about the appalling case of Corey Maye: despite the widespread, cross-ideological outrage that the case has elicited throughout the blogosphere, he's probably not any closer to being spared than he was a few weeks ago. I don't...
It should be noted that my partial defense of governors who don't grant clemency in cases like Tookie Williams' doesn't seem to apply to Schwarzenegger, who based the decision on.
John Cole, an anti-death penalty ("I dislike the death penalty because it is irreversible, it is arbitrary, it is seemingly enforced in a haphazard manner, it seems to be more.