Shorter Bullshit Moose: "A few random comments on a website somewhere prove that 'Democratic leaders continue to collude with the anti-Semitic appeasing left.' But what really demonstrates anti-Semitism is opposing the lunatic idea of invading Iran."The DLC likes to complain about its reputation, but having...
Author: Scott Lemieux
In this thread, a commenter noted something I've written about before, one of the most disturbing aspects of the deliberations surrounding Bush v. Gore: Ginsburg's retreat on a footnote criticizing.
I admit it: part of me wanted to mount a modest defense of Foer for giving a blog to Lee Siegel, if only on the grounds that nobody could have.
I'm happy that John posted the full context of Rick Santorum's reprehensible attempt to drag Bob Casey's dead father into their Press the Meat debate today:SANTORUM: He says the science is clear and it is clear. In fact, it is an abortifacient in certain circumstances....
Mark Steyn:Do you want to hear what a person sounds like when they really are -- to use Steyn's words -- "weak, that there's nothing -- no core, no bedrock.
My parents are coming to town this week, so I was asking a couple people about potential shows to see. One theater maven correspondent had this to say about The.
Just in case they vanish from the Google cache (also here), it's really worth preserving some of the best of the comments of his sock puppet for posterity:You have quite an obsession with Siegel! Sounds to me like you're an envious young writer. I mean,...
DeLong explains hackery, complacent reactionary contrarian division.
As Ezra notes, Katherine Harris' laugh-a-minute campaign--which is particularly amusing in light of the steady stream of GOP arguments that she was a great public official while she was handing.
Shorter Verbatim Glenn Reynolds: "I keep hearing about real-wage stagnation, but everyone I know who has a business complains that they can't get enough decent help even when they raise pay, because people are always leaving for better jobs." This a favorite Reynoldsism: "the fact...
Shorter wingnuts: the failure of the national media to immediately label the crazed actions of someone with severe mental problems enraged by a fight with his mother an act or.
Shorter Ross Douthat: Frat boys would have never engaged in lewd, vulgar behavior or the sexual exploitation of women if it wasn't for those meddling feminists and Milton scholars who.