Fascinating: apparently feminist women can also be heterosexuals. And I'm afraid that this earth-shattering insight can be found not in tossed-off filler in a bad junior high school newspaper, but in the New York Times. (I disagree with Alameida, however, that this represented the "zenith"...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Shorter Gregg Easterbrook: "Having finally accepted the truth of global warming after denying it for many years, I don't understand why Al Gore would make a film explaining the science.
Has anyone ever noticed that food poisoning really sucks? Sooo cold....
As long-time readers will know, I'm an opponent of the death penalty, but a fairly tepid one. While I don't think it ultimately accomplishes anything, I also think that as American injustices go, the death penalty circa 2006 is overrated. I would start with incarceration...
Since this web log hasn't had a post on Caitlin "why, oh why, do people criticize the crackpot arguments I make in public rather than the sensible opinions I express.
It's not just Al Gore; another politician who Ezra has convinced me to see the virtues of is Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius. And here's yet another reason to get on.
Like Ezra and Shakes, I hope that Al Gore will run in '08, and would, at a minimum, strongly lean toward supporting him in the primaries. Neil tries to throw some cold water on the parade. He makes at least one good point, although I'm...
A.O. Scott's review of the The Da Vinci Crap ("Ron Howard's adaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling primer on how not to write an English sentence") is a goldmine for lovers.
This is encouraging:As of Friday, Cook rates 75 seats as potentially competitive, of which the GOP must defend 55 (or 73 percent, up from 68 percent the previous week). Among.
The problem with trading an outstanding young pitcher for an injury-prone mediocrity and a good innings-eater for an arsonist reliever is that you end up with such unplanned special events as "Lima Time!" and "Fireworks Day with Jeremi Gonzalez." These events may be highly flammable.Fortunately,...
And by the title, I don't just mean our Round 2 prediction record (when you're right 0% of the time, you're wrong 100% of the time! Although that's a little.
[Picture via LGF watch.]One of the strategies that we're going to see more from cultural reactionaries is to misleadingly cite "religious freedom" in asking for broad exemptions to civil rights.