Meghan O'Rourke and Ruth Franklin with more on sexism and book reviewing. Although if the NYTBR fails to review this, I wouldn't say it's evidence of sexism. Thesis: Carl Paladino is a bigger trainwreck than Christine O'Donnell. The best book about baseball not written by...
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La Riposte has it right about the irony of wealthy athletes boycotting the Commonwealth Games over safety concerns in the wake of last week's bridge collapse: The real story, that.
Ed has located the original draft.
Niewert: Maybe now is the time to start asking people exactly why ACORN was killed by Congress -- and doing something about it. It is worth noting that prior to exposing himself as such an obvious, creepily misogynist fraud that virtually nobody will defend him,...
Arthur Penn and Sally Menke, R.I.P. This means I definitely need to see Bonnie and Clyde when it screens at the Palace in a couple months. To be honest, on.
A few months back, during an exchange which still bothers me for all the obvious reasons, The Donalde defended himself against my charge that certain of his posts created a hostile learning.
While the fact that none of the major conservative blogs have rushed to O'Keefe's defense is amusing, the document CNN acquired is not. Or only differently. It contains statements like: That the people planning the prank—O'Keefe included—know that O'Keefe's normal persona (or "personality") is "sleazy" shows improved...
When Taibbi's on there's no political journalist who makes better reading, and the white conservative Republicans re-branded as the "Tea Party" inspires some of his best work. After you finish.
I often find myself in disagreement with Amitai Etzioni, but he does makes some sense in his recent Politico op-ed on Petraeus' "metrics" for progress in Afghanistan: The newest way.
Is it possible to come up with a dumber "Obama would be leading the Democrats to a victory in the midterms if only he had sucked up even more to Republicans" argument than Clive Crook's? Well, I don't know, but some participants in this forum...
OK, maybe he was right to praise himself -- for the first time we have evidence that Richard Cohen is a very funny man. The segue from "practically, some suburban.
Shorter Ed Gillespie: "I must oppose transparency, because it violates the rights that individuals and especially corporations have under the First Amendment to have nobody disagree with them." Jeez, Ed,.