As noted in comments to Scott's presentation of the Republican Party's disturbingly honest self-conception, it's probably for the best that they focused almost exclusively on white people. After all, the alternative is even worse.
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"Mom, you know what I'm grateful for? I'm grateful I was born in the year 2002. This means I won't be around later when our sun goes supernova." (more…)
I know that Yglesias wants me to analyze the iconography of the Republican's "Pledge to America," and I'll do so a little later. But for the moment, I think it's worth.
I'm so old I remember getting lectures about how the Republicans were the Party Of Ideas. ...see also.
Sure, Felix Hernandez has pitched twelve more innings of significantly higher per-inning quality than C.C. Sabathia. But unlike Sabathia. he doesn't Know How To Win (TM). I mean, give Sabathia.
A commenter emailed and requested I write something about Kenneth Marcus's article on anti-Semitism at UCI. It opens: During the first years of the 21st century, the virus of anti-Semitism.
"Cyber-warfare" used to refer to damaging or stealing data and the networks on which they rely. Now, cyber-weapons can destroy physical infrastructure as well. As reported in CSMonitor: Cyber security experts say they have identified the world's first known cyber super weapon designed specifically to...
To state the obvious, this non-action is awful both on the merits (making the permanent extension of Bush's upper-class tax cuts more likely) and as politics (name me the district.
The odds that I will agree with David Bernstein over Dahlia Lithwick are...not good, but in this case Bernstein is right. I've been trying to condense the paper I presented.
Krugman makes a good case. And, yes, the idea that the "messaging" from someone no non-professional pays any attention to is more important than their ability to do the job is absurd, even in narrow political terms. Even if this wasn't the consistent finding of...
Jon Chait points out that for a generation now GOP proposals for Doing Something About Big Government have followed a predictable not to say neurotic pattern: Republicans keep running on.
"Comedian" Tim Slagle wrote a post slagging Morrissey for calling the Chinese a "subspecies" for "their" treatment of animals. I'm with Slagle on the condemnation, though I'm not as surprised.