In perusing recent excellent posts at Alas, A Blog and Body and Soul on abortion rates and presidencies, a thought occurs to me. If we were to take the view that abortion is akin to murder, and the refusal to recognize it as such is a form...
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This is a great trick. I wonder how often it happens? The really strange thing, though, is that these arguments really aren't any less plausible than the ones generally offered.
Michael Berube has a good review of the strangely gripping piece of science fiction published by the New York Times today. I'm not really a big fan of the genre, but I.
"When I criticized John Edwards for gratuitously mentioning Dick Cheney's gay daughter, I got lots of email suggesting that Edwards was simply being nice. Sorry, that won't fly after Kerry bizarrely, needlessly and explicitly raised the subject again ("I think if you were to talk...
Completely routine 2-out groundball hit to Derek Jeter. He doesn't have to move. Any decent college shortstop makes the play easily. He boots it. "How will that be scored? It.
As part of her invaluable roundup of reactionaries making their first and last argument in favor of gay rights, World O' Crap cuts to the heart of the issue with the.
The next issue of PS will contain 7 election models, 6 of which predict a Bush victory. I don't think this should influence expectations at all (remember, almost all predicted a solid Gore victory.) What it tells us is that the exogenous factors overwhelmingly favor Bush, which...
As readers of this blog know, I (like many people) was outraged by the attempts to gin up a "scandal" over Kerry's invocation of Mary Cheney. If you have any.
I never thought I'd write that, but James Wolcott is on Norville right now discussing O'Reilly. This should be pure gold... ...alas, he was on with two wankers who resemble.
I have to admit it--I like Ken Burns's Baseball. Sure, you could get to the 7th tape without being told that St. Louis even has a team. Yeah, it's pervaded by Whig history and PBS middlebrow nostalgia until it ends with a dreary rant about what'swrongwithmodernsports....
Those who would enjoy watching the Christians against the lions so long as the lions are liberals can hear Paul Krugman debate Hair Club For Growth President Stephen Moore here.
For those waiting for the mask to fall completely away from fake libertarianism (i.e. foaming-mouth reactionaries who use token support for choice and gay rights as a way to put.