It's official. I'm not sure what to say at this point. It's good, if merely symbolic, that the Dems were relatively unified in rejecting the most reactionary Supreme Court nominee in decades. Politically, it was a very good pick by Bush: as conservative as a...
Author: Scott Lemieux
A question: if Brokeback Mountain wins, will it be the best film to win Best Picture since Annie Hall in 1977? That would be my tentative assessment, although I think.
Like me, Roy was introduced to Robert Bresson by means of the sublime Au Hasard, Balthasar (which I saw last year.) Like me, he found it a remarkable, haunting picture;.
Good to see that Target has finally fired a pharmacist who wishes to interpose her beliefs between drugs she is professionally bound to dispense and the health of her customers. As I have argued before, what's particularly odious is that fact that these derelitctions of...
My first reaction to reading the Slate article on art-houses that Rob discusses below was to be both amused and contemptuous of this particular manifestation of contraianism-through-not-very-credible-random-anecdotes (has anyone ever.
The Alito filibuster fight is on. Of particular interest to our Washington state readers: according to Jane, "Maria Cantwell is reportedly quite wobbly, and might be susceptible to pressure. If.
I would like to say something about the PA elections. Except that what I would say pretty much boils down to 1)the election of an eliminationist anti-Semitic terrorist organization is very decidedly suboptimal in a variety of respects, and 2)the theory that the Iraq invasion...
I've seen more than one blogger compare reactionary Senate hopeful Bob Casey Jr. to Joe "Easiest Lay On The White House Lawn" Lieberman. As it turns out, this is unfair...to.
Phoebe Maltz uncovers yet another glaring piece of illogic in Will Saletan's recent abortion op-ed. Saletan infers from the fact that most women would prefer to avoid a pregnancy than.
Dennis the Peasant presents the advertising pitch of Flatulent Bathrobe Media (TM), which is the pure comic gold that you'd expect. It's hard to isolate the very funniest thing amidst the ungrammatical gobbeldygook, but I particularly enjoyed the claim that the average Little Green Footballs...
--Maha points out that Eyal Press' intermittently interesting NYT Magazine article about his abortion provider father ends on with a clinker: his embrace of the countermobilization myth. And just to.
Chris Penn passed away last night.