...welcomes Kevin Drum.I think that Roy's post about the difference between writers and political operatives might be useful in explaining how I talk about abortion (as well as many other issues.) Every time I post a critique I can expect a comment or three about...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Anne Lamott has decided to reject William Saletan's suggestion that pro-choice politics emphasize the premise that women who get abortions are immoral, and good for her:EVERYTHING WAS going swimmingly on.
You know who needs to really, really shut up? People who 1)are crying rivers of crocodile tears about how the friends and family of a civil rights leader comport themselves.
Ironically, with the recent retirement of the staggeringly great and effectively named Mario Lemieux, I was wondering what had ever happened to Rick Tocchet, an important cog in the great Penguins teams of the 90s. Well, now I know. It doesn't sound like anybody bet...
Julia of Sisyphus Shrugged will be taking a much-needed blog vacation for a few days, and hence occupying her blog in the meantime will be a passel of all-star bloggers,.
Seeing this post reminded me that I've been meaning to link to Ampersand's exhaustive decimation of yet another study that starts with assumptions about weight loss being the object (rather.
Mr. Chris Muir, author of the faux-hipster poor man's Mallard Fillmore. Again, the only "twisting of King's legacy" is being done by conservatives engaged, in Steve's phrase, as "part of a conservative shell game to claim the legacy of Martin Luther King, by denuding every...
Brad DeLong plays Marshall McLuhan to Jonah Goldberg's pompous windbag....Jonah's WWII history is about equally strong.
Given the way that many people will attempt to "Wellstone" the funeral of Coretta Scott King, it's worth nothing that the Wellstone meme itself is based on on a series.
Phyllis Schlafly has found yet another reason why feminism has purportedly ruined America:A man's life has been sacrificed, and three children have been denied their father by malicious feminists who have lobbied for laws that punish spousal rape just like stranger rape and deny a...
Redesigned and more aesthetically-pleasing alternative to Daily Kos Matt asks:It seems, meanwhile, that beneath all the smokescreens what they're really trying to say is that they think FISA is unconstitutional,.
Truly terrifying. Maybe if he had hung out with a good Republican like Johnny Ramone he might have been excluded...