Given the interesting comments by several friends of this blog (including Lance Mannion, Russell Arben Fox, and Ezra Klein), a few more comments in re: cultural conservatism of indeterminate contours. First of all, to clarify something I didn't explain well, I of course do not...
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Phoebe Maltz has the ultimate response to the ridiculous "man date" story in the Times. When I saw the thing, I actually considered tossing off a one-line post about how.
Another Amy Sullivan pundit's fallacy, another firestorm. A few comments: If you want to know why Sullivan generates so many hostile responses, although she seems to be a progressive arguing.
Amanda Marcotte recently noted that fake libertarians "are straight men who like to fuck without making babies and therefore oppose the wingnut push to legislate the bedroom. But they don't oppose it in any meaningful way, such as supporting politicians who, you know, agree with...
Trish Wilson notes the passing of Andrea Dworkin, and Professor B. offers a roundup of relevant commentary. I don't really have much to add to the consensus within these links;.
Sandy Koufax and Pedro Martinez have now pitched virtually the same number of innings--2324 for Sandy, 2311 for Pedro. Koufax was 165-87 with an ERA+ of 131. (A league average.
So what to make of this? I think Tobias is basically right about omnibus films in general: they are almost always better on paper than in practice, and sometimes they're pretty questionable on paper once you get past the director's name. Have you seen Four...
A completely indefensible, but familiar, right-wing trope appears within David Brooks' tripe today. He explains why the party that has lost the popular vote once in the previous four presidential.
Heartiest congratulations to Rob on his postdoc! This blog can only be improved by a perspective from Real America, and by all accounts I've heard Lexington is a fine town..
Nathan Newman, Sam Rosenfeld, and Brad Plumer are of course correct--the filibuster rule in the Senate has been one of the most potent weapons that American reactionaries have had, and it would be in the interests of progressives to get rid of it even if...
Ah, this is more like it:M Rivera (L, 1-1; B, 2) 0.2 3 5 1 3 1 0 38-18 10.80And Slappy Rodriguez making the key error is just icing on.
Lindsay notes that Saul Bellow, who many smart people consider the greatest American novelist of the past century (and who was born in Lachine, a suburb of my beloved Montreal),.