I tried to avoid getting engaged in this discussion, but Totten pulls me in:I'm glad I stopped writing about domestic politics. All this silliness reminds me of why I shouldn't have bothered even sticking my toe in last week. I needed a break from Middle...
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Yglesias points out this statement:He has a long time proclivity for suggesting that someone like James Baker or Brent Scowcroft might make a good envoy to try to re-start negotiations.
Shorter Victor Davis Hansen Hanson: Arabs are ungrateful, hypocritical parasites -- just look at how they use cell phones and television and iPods and medicine to further their evil vision..
Via alicublog, Michael Totten proposes some "centrists" who won't simply recycle hack talking points. The results are predictably hilarious:Ann AlthouseAndrew SullivanJeff JarvisMatt WelchArmed LiberalMegan McArdleDean EsmayOh, yeah, Ann Althouse--if there's anything T.V. needs, it's more right-wingers obsessed with meaningless personality trivia, especially about the Clenis!...
As the ratings for Studio 60 get steadily worse, I'll be interested whether the reaction from critics is that this show is too smart for the public, or whether we'll.
While researching something else entirely, I came across this, which must surely rank as one of the strangest statements ever to flow from the mouth of an American president. Speaking.
Heh-indeedy:Meanwhile, administration figures have correctly discerned that it would be easy to manage the situation in Iraq -- to at least keep some kind of lid on the bloodshed -- if Syria and Iran were cooperating with us. Unlike weak-kneed appeasers who want to try...
A summary of recent Senate polls:* Two Republican incumbents in very serious trouble, Santorum and DeWine.* One Republican incumbent trailing his challenger, Chafee.* Three Republican incumbents virtually tied with their.
Pat Robertson on Mark Foley: "Well, this man's gay; he does what gay people do." Sully:I wonder if that would make Glenn Reynolds vote Democrat.Heh. Indeed! Meanwhile, elsewhere in the.
Shorter Hitch: Tony Judt is, like, so obsessed with himself.
Hey, when did the NFL game scheduled on Monday night become MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL!!!!!!? I know that it's always been the biggest media game of the week, but ESPN is.
Over at CT, Kieran Healy discusses this site, which -- in addition to letting us know that there are 35 people named "Scott Lemieux," 709 named "Robert Farley," 1,954 named.