Since this discussion of a conflict between the authors Jennifer Weiner and Jodi Picoult and the New York Times jumbles some valid and some silly critiques together, I thought I'd try to untangle them: The underlying ressentiment on the part of the two bestselling authors...
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I hope that Stephen Strasburg's injuries turn out to be relatively minor and he's ready to go next year. But for the reasons cited by Posnanski and Neyer, I continue.
No sooner did I proclaim that my kids are more interesting than my pets than the cat made a desperate bid for renewed attention on the blog, and our lives.
Shorter David Broder: Now that the primary is over, John McCain is finally free to be the principled maverick he's always been. Now, where is that damned Easter Bunny with my afternoon hot chocolate? Verbatim David Broder, I swear: "One obvious area where he will...
In a rational world, this would be a no-brainer. In ours...
Quoth Adam Weinstein at Current Intelligence, as he explores the science behind "zombie ants." Yes, you read that right. You see, for 48 million years, a parasitic fungus called Ophiocordyceps.
As a blogger looking for soft targets, it's reassuring in a way that one always has Mickey Kaus's reflexive union-bashing: How to predict if "New"GM--as bailed out and restructured--really is a "sustainable" company?** Here's one way: The company is launching the new Chevrolet Cruze into...
I just heard that the testimony of the three undergraduates I helped place at West Point carries more weight than the baseless accusations of unpatriotic anti-American Jew-hating you leveled against.
Royce Lamberth is the kind of judge -- because of his crusades and inflammatory pronouncements on behalf generally but not exclusively reactionary positions -- who.
Look, I know my middle-of-the-road foreign policy posts have sometimes had readers wondering about my left-wing credentials. But let me point out David Horowitz has no doubt exactly where I sit politically. In fact, according to him, simply teaching in the University of Massachusetts-Amherst Department...
Tom Scocca has been performing the unenviable yet sometimes hilarious task of reading Ross Douthat's bloggy attempts to argue out from the massive logical holes dug in his columns. I.
I see that my state's next Republican Senator possesses all the syntactical gifts of his chief benefactress. Quoth Joe Miller:"Alaskans are prepared to enter a new era of politics --.