Well, if your book review must give space to something written by Joe Eszterhas, Joe Queenan is definitely the man for the job. Tannehaus has his faults, but I'm happy he's at least letting some reviewers unleash snark when it's warranted.
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Ezra notes the larger importance of the right wing's Potemkin "Feminism." Lance points out the obsession with the Clenis. (TM) Lindsay records the parade of sexist comments. Dawn Eden, to.
DeLong, invoking Daniel Davies, makes the first obvious point about Jon Chait's attempt to mount a "liberal" defense of the Iraq War. Chait wasn't just defending some abstract Iraq War--he.
So, content at having picked up my copy of World War Z this afternoon, I'm wandering the internet and find this:Cormac McCarthy sets his new novel, The Road, in a post-apocalyptic blight of gray skies that drizzle ash, a world in which all matter of...
Via Atrios, Drudge seems somehow surprised that Roger Waters doesn't care for George Bush. Frankly, I think that The Final Cut was released 25 years too soon...The Fletcher Memorial Hometake.
Viribus Unitis was the first Austrian dreadnought, commissioned in December 1912. Viribus Unitis carried 12 12" guns in four triple superfiring turrets, giving her a 12 gun broadside and 6.
Ann Althouse, right on schedule, has dug herself deeper with respect to her puerile crusade in a post accusing people of "poor reading skills," the fabled lack of a sense of humor invoked by anti-feminists everywhere, and--this is classic--"political hackitude," without responding to a single...
Proper and AppropriateVia Sullivan.
I suppose we should be happy that Russert at least brought up the macaca and Confederate flag issues, but I guess it's too much to expect that he would call.
One good thing about fake libertarians--they got us past the landmark days before I anticipated it.Anyway, I'm really amazed at the number of people who have read us, and thanks to everyone, especially to the best commenters in the blogosphere(TM). Special thanks to Matt and...
Thirteen point deficit with 3:11 left in the 4th quarter? No problem.
The glorious Austin band the Meat Purveyors are breaking up. I saw them last night at the Tractor; not their best show but a great set. Anyone in Seattle, Austin.