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 insist that people writing in English shouldn't split infinitives are cranks. When Churchill says that...
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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.
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.
In interests of the scrupulously even-handed political analysis for which this blog is justly famed, I pointed out that Joe Lieberman (DINO-Conn) had actually voted for worthy amendments to the.
I'm glad that Josh Marshall and Matt Yglesias knocked Joe Klein around for his embarrassing Press The Meat performance on Sunday. As they point out, not only is what Klein saying pretty much meaningless gibberish ("information age", "third way"--aren't those just annoying buzzwords that reactionary wankers use to sound...
(Context: The Northwest Film Forum in Seattle has been hosting an Yasuhiro Ozu retrospective, screening 27 of Ozu's 33 surviving films. I've managed to see six of them so far, and.
Yeah, I know, it's March, but I wanted to see a couple more things (one of which ended up quite high on the list), and re-screen a couple that are.
As a follow-up on Scott's excellent post below, see this new blog-within-a-blog at TPM. Pretty cool, for those of us who like to rubberneck at this slow-motion train-wreck. The blog is written by a Harvard Law professor with some expertise in this area, Elizabeth Warren,...
Since paperwight argues convincingly that the Dayton Amendment would not have pre-empted tougher state laws, I think the Democratic Senators who voted against should be called out and held to.
This Phoebe Maltz post (via Yglesias) raises some interesting issues. But more than anything, it reinforces my belief that "gentrification" is, at least as a normative concept, entirely worthless. (And, at.