Shorter Ross Douthat: The fact that a woman living in subsidized housing in New Orleans has a big T.V. means that there couldn't have been any racism in Ronald Reagan's invocation of apocryphal "welfare queens" with "Cadillacs," and "strapping young bucks"* buying "T-Bone steaks" with food...
Mark Hemingway via Yglesias. Guess who he's writing about: His relentless use of folksy aphorisms and corny rhetorical sleight of hand provokes visceral objections — but the criticism isn't merely.
Although her brother Henry has recetly been caught rogering my daughter's stuffed animals, Emma is by far the more unhinged of the two. She has always devoted some part of.
The Clenis (TM) -- now so powerful that he can control the GOP nomination:The reader was convinced that none other than Bill and Hill were Huckabee's ultimate backers. Given how divisive Huckabee is, how well they know know the passions of the Evangelical community (and deep...
Via Will Bunch, apparently Circuit City was begging some of its laid off employees to come back. Awwwww. As he concludes about the companay's strategy of firing its competent workers,.
Mark Schmitt gets this exactly right:As an observer of politics, and commenter on it, I almost entirely share Krugman's and Edwards' diagnoses. I appreciate the conflictual nature of politics. I.
I almost forgot to wish everyone a Happy Treason-in-Defense-of-Slavery Day. December 20 marks the anniversary of South Carolina's 1860 decision to leave the Union, in whose newly elected Republican leaders the state's propertied elites spied a grievous threat to the principle of perpetual black servitude. I've...
So in general I like to be involved in controversial comment threads that I start, and I seemed have launched the most controversial one of my erstwhile blogging career earlier.
Made more than ably by Dana Goldtstein.It is important to remember that, although he was (like Barack Obama) right on the war and supports some other good positions (anti-War (on.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm not exactly hip to the latest in stoner film culture, but would someone please tell me I'm the last person to actually hear about this? Maybe I missed Cheech and Chong Invade Grenada, but this is pretty goddamned...
I'm appalled that a young liberal writer would be so squishy about the kind of Tough Measures needed to stop the Icelandofascist Menace. Stop them before they support Matthew Barney's.
Via Lauren, Teresa Valdez Klein finds celebrity gossip hack Perez "Castro Is Teh Dead!!!111!!1!" Hilton calling Jamie Lynn Spears "trailer trash" and exclaiming that "Bitch is begging for her job!".