As an interlude, I thought it would be useful to link to this old post, which brings up an empirical fact that rarely makes it into “counterintuitive” arguments about how the widely-despised Roe v. Wade is destroying the Democratic Party: the public favors it by a two-to-one margin. I’m afraid my position remains that in respositioning themselves the […]
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I promise that the name of this blog will not be changed to “Scott replies to Matthew Yglesias posts about judicial policy-making,” but since I promised (threatened?) a legal defense of R
In honor of MLK day, David Ehrenstein has a great post on John F. Kennedy’s (The “F” stands for “It’s never the right time”) attempts to strenuously avoid any poli
There are two major potential drawbacks to litigation as a strategy. One–that it is particularly likely to generate a backlash–I recently discussed. The other is captured by Matthew Yglesias’s “fat and lazy” hypothesis: relying on litigation makes progressives less effectual in other political arenas. (This can be seen as a variant of Gerald Rosenberg’s famous […]
The fallacy Scott identifies in the post immediately below needs a pithy, clever name or acronym (I’m bad at this sort of thing–suggestions?), and the community of liberals needs to become
Matthew Yglesias points us to a Michael Lind article about how the Dems would win if they pandered more to middle-class suburbanites, and identifies a major problem pretty much endemic to the genre.
Over the break I happened to screen Mystic River, which a friend wanted to see, and it holds up really well. I’m even tempted to make a half-defense of the Lady Macbeth scene, which on re-viewing seemed to be intended not to explain why Penn acted as he did but to draw a comparison between the two […]
Sadly, No! points us to a typically tragi-comic exchange in which our president, once again, demonstrates his inability to remember the various twists and turns in language manipulation, this time vis
I suspected that the NY media would go further than Yglesias’s throwaway comment after the terrific Jets/Steelers game (congrats to frequent commenter gmack!) yesterday in turning Jet kicker Do
Good news here in Washington. The Democrats, with real majorities in both houses, are going after the questionable funding of the Building Industry Association of Washington. Apparently, the BIAW, and other industry groups, have been running a scam that allows them to profit from Worker’s comp funds, and rechannel that money into political campaigns of […]
We may not have the cinema options here in Seattle that Scott does in New York, but we do OK out here. Case in point: from February 3rd-March 10th, The Northwest Film Forum on Capitol Hill is having a
Chris Sullentrop certainly richly deserves the coveted “wanker of the day” award. Even sillier than the criticism of Kos is the “slap on the wrist”–implying an ethical vi