Via Roger,screenwriter John Rogers definitively demolishes the second half of the above oft-repeated bit of conservative received wisdom. In addition, why don’t we look at Glenn Reynolds’ claim about Hollywood’s “falling revenues.” Just for the hell of it, why don’t we look at some actual data about the “falling revenues” of “liberal Hollywood”: Box Office […]
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As Atrios notes, this Salon article is just awful. If I can highlight one particularly illogical argument: Compelling a reporter to reveal his or her sources to the police turns that reporter into a p
Alex Rodriguez has decided to play for the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic. Wow. I’m probably missing someone, but this is what the Dominican team looks like to me: DH: David Or
Robert Pape has an article on suicide bombing in the new APSR (What? Something interesting in the APSR? The hell you say!). Kevin Drum publishes an extract of an interview with Pape here, and Dan Drezner has a longer discussion here. The argument seems pretty interesting, as it puts to bed the notion that suicide […]
This list of overrated songs certainly has some problematic entries. “Pour Some Sugar on Me” doesn’t belong, not because it’s good because as far as I know it has no reputation
An excellent post by Lindsay, who skewers the ressentiment of self-described “nice guys” very effectively. It was fascinating to read the comments of various threads and see the durability
Matt is, of course, completely right here: Why would that be? Let’s say Bush puts up Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown. In response, all 7 Democrats commit to voting no. In addition, the nominally pro-choice Republicans — Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Lincoln Chaffee, and Arlen Specter — all commit to voting no. Then Owen […]
It should come as news to none of our readers that the Bush administration consistently demonstrates exceedingly poor policy judgment to complement their mendacity and skewed priorities on a myriad of
Nathan Newman draws the right lesson from Toyota deciding to locate a new plant in Canada rather than the Republican utopias of Alabama and Mississippi: Partly this is due to the embarrassing fact tha
Roxanne notes that the Cleveland Plain Dealer is declining to publish a story based on leaked documents. As iocaste points out, however, the paper is clearly mistaken on the law, and it’s worth keeping two very different issues distinct. If Judith Miller were being prevented from publishing what her source told her, then she would […]
Julie and Publius agree that far from being a desirable moderate, Gonzales is an unacceptable nominee, and liberals should absolutely not define him as a moderate or compromise candidate. Kos’ c
The federal law banning d&x abortions (and, given its vague language, who knows what else) is now 0-for-4 in the federal courts. (Via How Appealing.) While this is a straightforward decision unde