USA Today has a handy-dandy chart showing what a post-Roe landscape would look like. As you can see, despite disingenuous claims that overturning Roe is no big deal, roughly 200 million people live in states where the rights of non-affluent women either will or are...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Great.Nice to see Pedro get #200 last night. (Oddly, it's the second time I've seen a pitcher named "Martinez" win his 200th win live; I saw Dennis' in Florida in.
PSST...McCain is an unprincipled reactionaryIs there any more pathetic spectacle than the ongoing crush that some centrist liberals have on John McCain? Even liberals who one would think (Iraq excepted,.
In the Vodkapundit thread cited by Belle, I believe we have (4/7 6:39 AM) the definitive example of the wankosphere's vast strategic acumen:With respect to what else....Every play Civilization?I think Syria and Iran are next on the list. I've mentioned this before, but We should...
Via Henry comes the good news that Jacob Levy is back to at least intermittent blogging, with a definitive take on the Mearsheimer/Walt controversy. Levy notes that "Mearsheimer and Walt.
Walter ShapiroKirn, guest-blogging Chez Sully, has a great post about the use of the phrase "the tipping point" as a contemporary update of the "domino effect," with roughly the same.
William Saletan's latest piece comparing the "war on smoking" to an upcoming "war on obesity" rests on two clearly erroneous underlying premises, one of them fatal. The somewhat less important one is the uncritical relating of the claim of "federal officials" that "would soon surpass...
I come home from a movie and turn on Al-Yankeezera to see what the final score was. Bottom 9th, 1-2 pitch to Torri Hunter, Twins down a run, runners on.
It's nice to see King Kaufman tackle a particularly stupid element of sports labor-bashing, the idea that increasing ticket prices are due to high salaries:A Sox fan named Don Watts.
I think it's correct to say that it's frequently "a background assumption of the conversation -- so much so that neither participant questions it -- that women have the ability to plan how many children they will have. No one even asks how it is...
One strange thing about Stanley Fish's defense of an originalism based on discovering the intentions of the author is that most defenders of originalism see the obvious fallacy involved. In.
Odd; maybe it's that I had a good news/company/food kinda day, but I'm actually inclined to celebrate the 2005-6 Northwest Division champions while noting the admittedly glorious Canucks elimination as.