Clearly, the increasing price of turkey is all the more reason to heed the sage advice of Calvin Trillin.
Whenever you hear a pundit use this word, you can safely tune out, as it's an even bigger bullshit dump than "leadership" or "bully pulpit." The rest of the column,.
Apparently the fantasy never dies...
Michael Bailey and Forest Maltzman have a piece up at the Prospect arguing that the best political science modelling suggests that the Supreme Court will uphold the ACA. I don't necessarily disagree with their conclusion, but I'm skeptical about some aspects of their specific argument. To...
Exhibit 4,000,000 in why the border wall is worthless, driving people into the desert to die while not even slowing down drug smuggling.
Weather is pretty not great in New England, a lot of people are on the road across the country including myself in about 5 minutes. Be safe, blah, blah, etc..
I have always wanted to like Catherine Breillat's films, but never have. I find her a cut-rate Eric Rohmer, trying and failing to equal Rohmer's dialogue about sex and love and making up for it with shock value. People liked "Fat Girl" and most of it...
I'm a huge fan of the Roots and think Michele Bachmann is a malignant political figure, but Jessica Grose is right. However subtle, calling a Republican politician a "bitch" isn't.
Last night I accidentally watched the bulk of the GOP national security debate. There was certainly a degree of entertainment value, and there's something to be said for being part.
That's it; I will never again be convinced of Joe Paterno's Profound Morality. Or, for that matter, ever before. Jerry Sandusky's Sixth Amendment claim continues to get support. Hacked emails of climate scientists: flypaper for idiots. And a test for the media. Tomorrow on conservatives and...
The jazz world and the drumming world weeps tonight.
It's an appropriately dopey punchline to a Bobo column that actually argues that the Republican and "Democrat"* parties are equally monolithic. The guy makes a healthy salary to discuss politics.