Fafnir generously offers us the founding myth now being proffered by a majority of the Republican Party, including at least one Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Now, if you're the kind of liberal secularist heathen who reads this blog, you may wonder about why...
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Shorter E.J. Dionne: Because the Republicans have successfully misled the electorate about their extremely unpopular abortion platform, the Democrats should respond by substantively changing the abortion policies of their caucus.
I'm not in a productive mood as I'm just waiting around until it's time to go see Slint. I doubt anyone cares much, but I've got my own top 10.
As a matter or general policy, I try to avoid making assumptions about the motives of others, especially those I've never met and don't know. Still, it's hard to see how Paperwight doesn't have a good pointhere. Marshall Wittman is hardly fresh off the turnip...
Now that was a great game, one of the best I've seen in a long time, and a happy outcome to boot. Congrats to Lorenzo Romar on glorious season. I.
Regular readers of this blog know that all three of us are pretty much of one mind when it comes to the new conservative enthusiasm for global democracy promotion. Let's.
No, it's not another interminable Hegel-obsesssed film review by Charles Mudede. It's in the news section, where The Stranger occasionally pulls it together to offer a quality product. I've got nothing against The Stranger giving some column inches to a conservative; in fact, I think it...
Nobody will confuse me with John Simon or Bill Safire. I am not any kind of absolutist, for example, when it comes to arbitrary grammatical rules. I think pendants who.
Via MaxSpeak, Vivek Chibber provides a long-necessary demolition of Niall Ferguson. Sawicky highlights the first part of Chibber's argument, pointing out the ridiculousness of Ferguson's claims about the "good government" allegedly provided.
Atrios is correct about the unpersuasiveness of the Carter/Glastris "national service" article, and also makes a very important point about using 4-year colleges as a technique to avoid the elitism of the draft. When you teach at city college, this is a mistake you won't make;...
Nice to see the Derb responding to his coveted nutwork slot by extending his wingnuttery beyond his usual discussions of buggery...
John Holbo does nice work with the always-good-for-a-laugh David Horowitz. I think we all knew that "Joltin' Joe" de Maistre, Glenn Reynolds, and Harry Lime were all part of the same.