via... This is what happens when you have you have a tiger by the tail, but you made the tiger. And you made it out of poop-flinging piranhas. How do piranhas fling poop? I don’t know. I’m not the one who Dr. Frankenmcardled the piranhatiger....
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My copy of this book arrived in the mail yesterday, and this enthusiastic review from Adrian Vermeule in TNR suggests I made a wise choice: Schwartzberg studies collective decision-making in the.
Have you been waiting for another "nonpartisan" movement urging everyone to come together and concede that conservatives are right about everything? Who hasn't! Which brings us to No Labels, who.
The World's Worst Delberative Body, everyone: The Senate’s effort to restore long-term unemployment insurance benefits for 1.3 million Americans sputtered Tuesday amid bitter procedural disagreements. Negotiators from both sides of the aisle had been working to get a deal to extend the jobless aid that...
I’ve been looking forward to IFC’s “The Spoils of Babylon” ever since I saw previews for it and had no idea what the hell I was looking at. Now that.
On the night of January 15, 1915, the IWW writer and propagandist Ralph Chaplin wrote the song "Solidarity Forever." The song is emblematic of Wobbly culture. If there's one thing.
It should very much go without saying that the chants of Yale frat boys do not constitute sound principles of jurisprudence: Last week, a Swedish judge ruled that a man who proceeded to have sexual intercourse with a woman who was screaming "NO" so loudly...
Whatever its successes and failures in terms of achieving policy goals, the modern American conservative movement is extraordinarily good at the closely related goals of self-dealing and separating rubes from.
Back when I had my own blog, I put up a historical image of the day. It was really just for me to slowly build a bank of images for.
How's that Republican outreach to racial minorities going these days? North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Greg Brannon has an interesting argument for eliminating food stamps: "slavery." In a videotaped interview with the North Carolina Tea Party in October, Brannon, a Rand Paul-endorsed doctor who is...
I think there’s lots to find puke-inducing about the “do what you love” mantra. For starters, it’s probably been emblazoned on a pillow, which automatically makes it an incredibly obnoxious.
As I've been saying from the beginning, the obvious problem with the theory that Alex Rodriguez merited an extraordinary punishment is that the collective bargaining agreement specifies a penalty for.