The great Emily Nussbaum links to, while critiquing, a defense of the Onion's Quvenzhané Wallis tweet. To amplify Nussbaum's response a little, I actually agree with Johnson that the intent of the tweet was to mock misogynist attacks on girls and women in Hollywood. The problem...
Thanks to the Daily Caller, I'm now a strong supporter of Ashley Judd's potential 2014 Senate bid: - On her comparing mountaintop removal to the Rwandan genocide: “President Clinton has repeatedly.
Of course the conservative response to comparing Ted Cruz and Joe McCarthy is to embrace McCarthy.
I don't know how I missed this: Missouri state Rep. Mike Leara (R) loves the Second Amendment so much he wants to make it a felony for state lawmakers to propose legislation he thinks would violate it. On Sunday, Leara offered up this addition to Missouri...
Cleaning out the ol' Google Reader... Stephen Walt lists "Five Inconvenient Truths" that he wishes American policymakers would tell. See also Walt for a tribute to the late Glenn Snyder..
Walter Cronkite previews the office of 2001, in 1967. Marissa Mayer would obviously disapprove. Working from home! Of course, Cronkite couldn't imagine a woman in this office. Via
A few interesting pieces on Asian food and history. 1. This is an interesting discussion of the origins of pad thai, a dish that is fairly minor within Thai cooking but is the singular dish of Thai food overseas. It's connections are closely related to a...
Is Ron Fournier real? A vicious parody of a self-consciously "centrist" beltway pundit? It's impossible to tell. We can start with the Green Lanternism: But the president won't get off.
Very interesting: Which is where Paraguay’s own “Argo” enters into the story. After Jimmy Carter denied Somoza asylum, he headed to Paraguay, where General Alfredo Stroessner’s right-wing military regime governed..
I apologize for the delay between Lemieux's post and my uploading of the podcast, but being that we're responsible folk, we actually went out and purchased the software I'm using to edit these podcasts ... and once registered all the settings changed such that Other Scott...
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Shorter Verbatim Charles Murray: "I had never heard of Seth MacFarlane, and was astonished by his talent. And envious of his impermeable self-confidence." Confusing "greasy smarm" and "unjustified self-regard" with.