This Tom Scocca piece is pretty much brilliant from soup to cappuccino -- I'm not even sure where to start excerpting. Here's a couple of teasers: Guns kill people. More guns kill more people. What the NRA gets wrong—intentionally or delusionally or, in the psychologically...
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It's been almost seven weeks since the 2012 general election, but I have yet to grow weary of tales from the Romney campaign: Rich Beeson, the Romney political director.
This amusing piece by Charles Davis on how he went to capitalist summer camp and became a communist reminded me of this old Yglesias approval of a pretty cheap shot.
I finally saw Lincoln last night. I doubt what I have is to say is anything others haven't verbalized. But a couple quick points. As a film, it's classic Spielberg. Well made entertainment in the broad and often obvious populism of D.W. Griffith and John...
This is the set of facts that the Iowa Supreme Court did not see as constituting sex discrimination: During the last six months or so of Nelson’s employment, Dr. Knight.
OMG, someone alert the authorities. Dr. Erik Loomis of the University of Rhode Island has Buster Keaton's head on a stick. He is responsible for the murder of said actor..
I have to say that Wonkette really delivers the best piece on the recent insanity: On the internet, this sort of comment is pretty much what you call “mild.” However, Erik Loomis is not merely an academic; he is also a blogger at Lawyers, Guns...
Charlotte Allen would like to inform her critics that her logical and factual errors are central to her point. The only interesting thing about Allen's response is that apparently Erik's.
Shorter Pierce, Serwer, and MacGillis: Bring me the head of Wayne LaPierre.* *A note for our illiterate readers: I am not suggesting that any of these gentlemen are literally advocating.
The law school that employs me as a tenure-track faculty member has what I hope is a fairly unusual practice: Each year faculty members -- I'm unclear whether this includes the non-tenure-track faculty, who are full-time employees but paid quite a bit less than the...
This collection of quotes from Robert Bork, the towering intellect whose defeated Supreme Court nomination was the greatest injustice in known human history, is another sad manifestation in the politics.
Wayne LaPierre at the National Rifle Association press conference this morning: And here’s another dirty little truth that the media try their best to conceal. There exists in this country,.