Appropriately enough, on the eve of what might have been the most asinine debate moderation since the immortal horse-race wankery of Ted Koppel, Ygelsias perfectly captures the vacuous, pointless, information-destroying interviewing style of Tim Russert:Russert apparently meant this as a question. For some reason, we were...
Seems to me to be good news.
If only my computer would die....now. Now? Anything? Nope. Damn.
Hopefully most readers of this site are well aware at this late date that "judicial activism" in ordinary political discourse means absolutely nothing more than "judgifying conservatives don't like." Still, claiming that it's unacceptable "judicial activism" for judges to adjudicate breach of contract disputes takes things...
Wow."I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution," Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. "But I believe it's a lot easier to change.
John Scalzi, via Ralph Luker:Jonah, dude, I don’t doubt that you misspoke. That’s pretty obvious. But, really. How does one — particularly one purporting to write a book on fascism.
Barack Obama now says that his favorite Wire character is Omar. Given that Obama also has connections with Brother Mouzone, doesn't the true structure of the Baltimore drug trade become incredibly obvious? Let me lay it out for you; Barack Obama ordered the execution of Stringer...
With the economy drifting towards recession and the Wire beginning to suck, true disaster looms. Noah Shachtman:When our robotic overlords finally do take over, there's a decent chance they'll do.
Charli Carpenter at Duck:My quote, attributed to Edmund Burke, read "the only thing necessary for the persistence of evil is for good people to do nothing." It is commonly quoted.
Susan Faludi, she of Backlash and Stiffed, is mad at the pollsters for their failure to understand American women. And she's not going to take it any more. In an LA Times column today, Faludi tries to set them (and us) straight. She hones in on...
To follow up a bit on what I wrote at TAPPED, there's some utility in thinking about this point:David [Mutimer], on the other hand, gave a thought provoking but untitled.
[Spoilers]I'm a little worried that the final season of The Wire is going to be like Sopranos Season 6A (aside from the awful-by-any-standard dream sequence): vastly better than pretty much.