The Poor Man gives us the Roll Call for the Democrats who voted for torture and against any semblance of the rule of law by voting to confirm Alberto Gonzalez: Landrieu (D-LA) Lieberman (D-CT) Nelson (D-FL) Nelson (D-NE) Pryor (D-AR) Salazar (D-CO) So, we have five...
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A catalog from Princeton University Press arrived in my box today. I pass along without comment a book publication announcement: On Bullshit Harry G. Frankfurt One of the most salient features.
The Koufax Award nominees for funniest post, always a treasure trove, are up. How they winnowed the Fafblog! and Poor Man posts down to only a few, I have no idea..
I have been meaning to comment for a while on this very strange Slate article. Ezra raises the most salient objection: it's absolutely crazy to think that the Republicans, in the current context, would be willing to strike some sort of deal if Democrats would...
The story that German welfare officials were intended to compel women to accept jobs in brothels at the risk of having their welfare payments discontinued has been discredited. (It is.
The Bonassus, Daniel Geffen, actually turns to the research.... a) Adjust your policies to be more like the other (more successful) party's? b) Stick to your guns and maintain the same.
Classic Tomorrow.
One of the difficulties any rational person has with Gregg Easterbrook's review of Jared Diamond is that he is simply speaking a different, wingnuttier dialect of the English language. Once.
I know it's difficult to believe, but the Eatserhackery referenced below is conceivably only the second-stupidest thing featured in today's New York Times.
Rob and Scott have been doing just fine without me during my unplanned blogging sabbatical, to the extent that the vast majority of you probably hadn't noticed. At any rate, I'm still here. My lack of blogging can be pretty directly linked to some serious...
To be candid, lacking expertise on matters of either fashion or tact as I do I'm basically indifferent about Dick Cheney's Eddie Bauer Auschwitz outfit. Nonetheless, Lindsay Beyerstein's take on the.
This is on Book TV right now. Bobo, the Derb, and Christina Hoff Summers discuss I Am Gene Simmons. And it's as bad as it sounds. Bobo, of course, uses this to.