Phoebe Maltz uncovers yet another glaring piece of illogic in Will Saletan’s recent abortion op-ed. Saletan infers from the fact that most women would prefer to avoid a pregnancy than to have an abortion the conclusion that women therefore consider abortion to be highly immoral. But, of course, as Maltz explains this is (like pretty […]
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Dennis the Peasant presents the advertising pitch of Flatulent Bathrobe Media (TM), which is the pure comic gold that you’d expect. It’s hard to isolate the very funniest thing amidst the
AG is doing some good work on the QDR. Pay attention.
Shorter Ed Morrissey: Israel should respond to the democratic success of Hamas by pushing all the Palestinians into the Jordan or the Mediterranean. That’ll teach ’em to elect the wrong folks. Instapundit characterizes Morrissey as “depressed”. Do depressives often advocate genocide?
Wally points out the obvious: espn’s Michael Smith explains why the failure to fill any of the eight vacancies in the NFL with a minority is not simply racism. see, as he explains it it’s
From the appropriately dubbed Machiavelli’s Cat, a solution of Swiftian magnitude.
–Maha points out that Eyal Press’ intermittently interesting NYT Magazine article about his abortion provider father ends on with a clinker: his embrace of the countermobilization myth. And just to make sure he fulfilled his quota of “let’s pretend that anti-choice policies are really in the interests of reproductive freedom” contrarianism, he also repeats the […]
Chris Penn passed away last night.
I am on the record of being highly skeptical of Robert Casey Jr.’s claims to be a staunch progressive who happens to be extremely reactionary on women’s rights, but I was also open-minded.
Really, really interesting post by Brad Plumer on a project by Daryl Press and Keir Lieber to determine whether MAD, or Mutual Assured Destruction, still applies to the US-China and US-Russia relationships. They conclude that China and Russia cannot be confidant of maintaining a second strike capability against the US. It would be wrong to […]
Lexington is blessed with the Kentucky Theater, an institution which would compare well with most of the best theaters in Seattle. The Kentucky Theater has two large theaters, each nearly as big as th
I know it’s only January, but still, it seems pretty likely that Fred Barnes’ new Bush hagiography will be the worst book released by a major press this year. How bad is it? It’s a l