Bad things are happening in Congress. For more read Belle Waring, Ted Barlow, and Katharine at Obsidian Wings, Kevin at Lean left, Jeanne at Body and Soul. If you don't know what "extraordinary rendition" means, then you're just like me about a half hour ago. Katharine explains: "Extraordinary rendition" is...
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According to Glenn Reynolds, citing an article in the NY Post, the 60 Minutes scandal has had the salutary effect of destroying Dan Rather's ratings. "No wonder Big Media folks aren't.
I simply can't urge you strongly enough to read the article in the most recent Vanity Fair about Florida 2000--it's just magnificent, clearly putting inside baseball from the court's clerks in.
A brilliant post by Jeanne D'Arc about the staggeringly dishonest bait-and-switch being pulled by hawks who 1)strongly favor intervention in the Sudan, and 2)wish to remain hack Bush apologists. Very difficult to pull off, since Bush hasn't intervened in Sudan and shows no sign of doing...
Bob Harris on the terrorist threats that still threaten this great land. As long as Air Supply can cross borders with immunity, we might as well install bin Laden in.
For your Sunday afternoon amusement, see s.z.--who finds better wingnuttery than anyone--analyze Lisa Wechel's fascinating thoughts on sex ed. and the gays. Call me old-fashioned, but I would prefer finding out.
As he prepares to break George Sisler's record, I thought I would celebrate by passing along a remarkable junk stat. Bill James developed a series of tests that attempted to predict whether a player would make the hall-of-fame. One is called the Hall-of-Fame Monitor, which...
The latest embarrassing hackwork of the Instarube reminds me of this gem from the Crooked Timber archives about the National Review, which has been flogging the Rather story to an even more remarkable.
I'm far too old and broke to go see this much live music in such a short period of time, (and looking at the dates, I might be too depressed.
What's most amazing about the elements of the right who are fighting rhetorical battles on behalf of the president isn't so much the mendacity, although that can be pretty awe-inspiring. It's the unbelievably low assessment of the intelligence of their audience. The Weekly standard is...
My alienation from a show I used to watch religiously is even greater than Rob's; I haven't watched a second of either show in the new season. James Wolcott amplifies the.
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