Over the break I happened to screen Mystic River, which a friend wanted to see, and it holds up really well. I'm even tempted to make a half-defense of the Lady Macbeth scene, which on re-viewing seemed to be intended not to explain why Penn acted as...
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Sadly, No! points us to a typically tragi-comic exchange in which our president, once again, demonstrates his inability to remember the various twists and turns in language manipulation, this time.
I suspected that the NY media would go further than Yglesias's throwaway comment after the terrific Jets/Steelers game (congrats to frequent commenter gmack!) yesterday in turning Jet kicker Doug Brien into.
Good news here in Washington. The Democrats, with real majorities in both houses, are going after the questionable funding of the Building Industry Association of Washington. Apparently, the BIAW, and other industry groups, have been running a scam that allows them to profit from Worker's...
We may not have the cinema options here in Seattle that Scott does in New York, but we do OK out here. Case in point: from February 3rd-March 10th, The.
Chris Sullentrop certainly richly deserves the coveted "wanker of the day" award. Even sillier than the criticism of Kos is the "slap on the wrist"--implying an ethical violation, but just.
I had no idea what a luddite I've become in my music-listening practices until I saw this thread at Matthew Yglesias. All my music is in CD form (about 600 of them), and my computer contains no MP3s (until very recently, that was a necessary consequence...
Via Tbogg, it seems that Tom Wolfe's new novel, These Kids Today: Committing Acts of Moral Suicide that Should Only Be Discussed by Reactionary Fops Who Did Their Best Writing During the Johnson.
Good lord. Kevin Drum is feeling guilty for being so audacious as to oppose handing the Arnold a PR coup that would gain his party seats locally and nationally, in exchange.
I suppose I should mention that we have been nominated for Koufaxes in the Most deserving of wider recognition and best group blog categories. Thanks to our nominators and readers. At the minimum, we expect to win a Villone...
Lindsay Beyerstein offers a recipe for the "Santorum Shot": chai tea concentrate, chartreuse, and vodka. Despite me general belief that there should be many fewer vodka-based drinks in the world,.
Prof. InstaHack thinks this point is so clever it's worth repeating twice: "...why are they "death squads?" I thought that people who did this sort of thing were called "insurgents," in.