Sara Mead and Tom Scocca make a lot of good points about Amy Chua's dislikable, widely-discussed piece on "Chinese mothers." Aside from the stereotyping and assertions-without-evidence, what strikes me most is Chua's conception of "success." It's not only, as Scocca says, that Chua is...
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Shorter Jon Stewart: A) It's not at all clear that political vitriol caused the Giffords’ shooting. B) Acknowledging that doesn’t mean political vitriol isn’t a problem in this country. C).
A mere PAC-10 partisan, I must leave it to Farley to deliver the true post-mortem, but I empathize especially because that's exactly how a team I rooted for would have.
As someone who teaches rhetoric, I can only say that I've been profoundly disappointed in the quality of the conversation about the assassination attempt on Gabrielle Giffords. Despite all the condemnation of everyone else's "violent rhetoric," I've yet to see one post in which the...
Irin Cameron with a wonderful dismantling of Caitlin Flanagan. Of course, "unproven gender essentialism and barely-disguised contempt for a woman with whom she purports to be empathizing" is an accurate.
John Sides at the Monkey Cage weighs in with some social science on the relationship between militant metaphors in political speech and individuals' willingness to engage in actual political violence.
Jack Shafer's column about speech in the wake of the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords conflates several different claims into a broad argument about free speech. Some of these claims are sensible and some less so. Let me try to untangle the knot: I...
Tammy Bruce and Sarah Palin's flack. Maybe Althouse is doing some writing for Palin on the side or something. ...TBogg: "Johnny Cash once surveyed a man in Reno just to.
Sweet. 05-06 aside, was the Lynch stiff-arm -- perhaps I should say flea-swat -- of Porter the greatest moment in Seahawk history? I'd have to think so.
Gabrielle Giffords. Update: Sarah Palin and gun fetishism. We can only imagine what would happen if the shooter turned out to be a young Muslim. Since he appears to be a white guy it'll be probably be considered in bad taste to use the t...
New Orleans (-10.5) over Seattle: I know the Saints are very banged up, but...alas, my Norris West-division champion Hawks have only a couple teams from the era in which the.
Is it too late for the Stones to retroactively re-hire Mick Taylor in 1975?