Thanks to the reader who gave me Nicholas Lemann’s Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War. I’ll get it read and reviewed as soon as I post reviews of the last two books I was supposed to review… Thanks also to whoever just dropped $10 in the tip jar. We’re always appreciative!
Category: General
Kaus, purportedly channeling Tim Noah: He said it: Only Slate ‘s Tim Noah, however, has had the balls to prematurely speculate about a partisan Schiavo do-si-do in which Tom DeLay suddenly reali
Roger has it.
Winner of the Bildungsroman Award for Best Coming of Age Matt Yglesias makes a simple but nonetheless not often enough made point here: The saddest thing about the 3,000th American death in Iraq is that unlike the first batch of casualties, people getting killed or maimed in Iraq these days are really doing so in […]
To follow up on Atrios and Ezra, let me carry the stats in this Times article one step further. Let’s use their figures to extrapolate government health care spending per capita: United States $
I really try to be optimistic about things early in the year, and then I see that the Calgary Herald today features eight bloody pages of horoscopes. Weren’t there at least some sightings of the
Here’s to 2007. I’m currently hiding in my room, neglecting my hosting duties at my own New Years party, of which I am a host. Here’s a miserable way to end a miserable year–ho
The oppressive demands of fatherhood have guaranteed that this will be my most sedate New Year’s Eve since 1984. Unlike 1987, I probably won’t be arrested; unlike 1989, I won’t squan
Victor Davis Hanson assumes the Virgil Goode position on immigration: Remember that many of the 9/11 terrorist murderers had lived for long periods in the United States — dressing, talking, and entertaining themselves like Americans, as they despised the very culture they apparently enjoyed. The father of the Muslim Brotherhood, Sayyid Qutb, developed much of […]
Last night Davida and I took in the Harlem Globetrotters-New York Nationals tilt down at the US Bank Arena in Cincinnati. We didn’t make it through the whole game, but I came away with the follo
A guest post by Livy Question: is any major event not fodder for the online right’s complaints about the insufficient patriotism of progressives? They are, to be sure, by and large obsessive cul