R.I.P. Jim Carroll....R.I.P. Jody PowellR.I.P. Patrick Swayze.Brutal day, though I suppose no more or less than all the others.
Had a good diavlog on Friday with Rachel Kleinfeld of the Truman Project. This clip focuses on the problems that the drone war in Af/Pak presents for a progressive security.
Scary black woman throws tennis into turmoil.Update: When I proposed this piece to the Daily Beast, I suggested I might not even mention race because the piece is primarily about.
At this point, Reynolds, Malkin et al. have dug up parody's corpse to kill it again so many times I can't believe there's anything left in the grave at this point. (You'd think that a college professor might, say, take 20 seconds to check ABC's website...
In response to Jeff Rosen's recent argument that Elena Kagan blew it at the recent oral arguments on a campaign finance case, Yglesias argues that oral arguments at the Supreme.
It's hard to say how to take this long post on the Iranian ballistic missile program; there's a lot of detail, but where evidence is not openly available conclusions are.
Shorter Susan Collins: "I can't support a trigger for a public option; everyone knows there's no chance the insurance companies I'm shilling for could decrease their looting enough to get up to code."
It's obviously just one formula, but the Yankees and Dodgers being 1 - 2 in the "Secret Sauce" rankings is nonetheless depressing.
From the silliest protest since their last:At some level, I suppose you have to admire the effort.
Larry Gelbart has passed. He was one of the key creative elements behind the early, funny years of M.A.S.H., and was also one of the authors of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Tootsie.
To follow up a bit on Rob, I would have to say that I'm if anything a little more in sympathy with Matt's point. At the very least, if one.
Joe Wilson a big fan of commemorating treason in defense of slavery and lawlessness in defense of apartheid.