As noted in comments to Scott's presentation of the Republican Party's disturbingly honest self-conception, it's probably for the best that they focused almost exclusively on white people. After all, the alternative is even worse.
"Mom, you know what I'm grateful for? I'm grateful I was born in the year 2002. This means I won't be around later when our sun goes supernova." (more…)
I'm voting for George Thomas.
I know that Yglesias wants me to analyze the iconography of the Republican's "Pledge to America," and I'll do so a little later. But for the moment, I think it's worth reiterating what he wrote with a cudgel. So without further ado, here is how the Republican...
I'm so old I remember getting lectures about how the Republicans were the Party Of Ideas. ...see also.
Sure, Felix Hernandez has pitched twelve more innings of significantly higher per-inning quality than C.C. Sabathia. But unlike Sabathia. he doesn't Know How To Win (TM). I mean, give Sabathia.
Robert Kaplan says all manner of silly things, but because he says them in important places, we're supposed to listen: He or she who sits in Delhi with his back to Muslim Central Asia must still worry about unrest up on the plateaus to the northwest....
I went on the Alyona Show yesterday to discuss a book I haven't read: To elaborate a bit, I think that it's correct to say that the President could have.
A commenter emailed and requested I write something about Kenneth Marcus's article on anti-Semitism at UCI. It opens: During the first years of the 21st century, the virus of anti-Semitism.
"Cyber-warfare" used to refer to damaging or stealing data and the networks on which they rely. Now, cyber-weapons can destroy physical infrastructure as well. As reported in CSMonitor: Cyber security experts say they have identified the world's first known cyber super weapon designed specifically to destroy...
To state the obvious, this non-action is awful both on the merits (making the permanent extension of Bush's upper-class tax cuts more likely) and as politics (name me the district.
The odds that I will agree with David Bernstein over Dahlia Lithwick are...not good, but in this case Bernstein is right. I've been trying to condense the paper I presented.