Amanda discusses Saletan's latest. The column gives us the two sides of Saletan. First, we get the pro-choicer originating bog-standard ideas:This may sound strange, but I don't consider myself a real abortion foe. I have friends and sparring partners who think abortions should be illegal or...
Indeed, the Republicans probably had no idea about the derision their non-budget would receive, given the decades of precedent that any reactionary white guy in a suit could say anything.
To follow up on Duncan and Roy, one will hope that child pornography laws will be changed to exempt non-commercial self-photos of adolescents sent to other adolescents. Changing them is.
With more graphs!This "alternative budget" manages what I wouldn't have thought possible; turn the Republican policy into even more of a farce. And, yet, one has to agree that the complete lack of a budget as part of the alternative budget makes sense: "The alterna-budge is...
Krugman questions the wisdom of the smartest person in known human history, St. Larry Summers:On Monday, Lawrence Summers, the head of the National Economic Council, responded to criticisms of the.
In the thread about the Madoff scam a couple days ago, Weiner noted this classic analysis of various scams from Teresa Nielsen Hayden. As it happens, spending my college years.
(cf.)The most amazing part of my trip to Jack in the Box is that I didn’t walk into the restaurant intending to order a steak teriyaki bowl.After digging around beneath the seats of my car and rummaging through my pockets -- like any good quarterback would...
In light of what appears to be yet another successful extortion of taxpayers to get a new ballpark in Florida, Rob Neyer ponders the question of why these irrational deals.
Gingi Edmond. Speaking of Barney Frank, I believe his note that for "pro-lifers" life begins at conception and ends at birth seems apropos here.
I expressed hope earlier in the week that Vernont governor Jim Douglas wouldn't veto legislation granting same-sex marriage rights that is poised to pass both houses of the state legislature overwhelmingly (it has already passed the Senate 26-4.) Alas, it seems that Douglas will veto the...
Barney Frank's recognition of Antonin Scalia's contempt for gays and lesbians has gotten predictable pushback from the likes of Fox News and Ann Althouse. The latter asserts that Frank is.
Raptor down in the California desert. The immediate concern is the pilot; reports thus far give no indication as to his condition. That's probably not good, but of course we.