Erik Loomis informs me that LGM has achieved immortality in the form of a screenshot of a google search in the liner notes of M.I.A.'s latest album. The post in question had been part of the "lost archive," but I have recreated the post in all...
Since I've said several mean things about him over the years, which I'm sure has kept him up at night, wandering the halls of his wife's 30,000 sq ft mansion,.
Lovely: In the fall of 1999, the drug giant SmithKline Beecham secretly began a study to find out if its diabetes medicine, Avandia, was safer for the heart than a.
In response to reports that Tim Geithner is trying to scotch Elizabeth Warren's appointment to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (and presumably prefers someone who is sort of willing to overlook the whole "consumer protection" part of the mission), Yglesias and Fernholz point out that the...
I happened to spot this little item at a Soulless Chain Bookstore recently -- apparently disgraced governor George Allen has decided to devote a whole book to making stupid conservative.
Shorter Jay Bybee: "I'm very sorry. I'm sorry that there are some people out there who think that designing specious legal arguments in order to enable executive branch officials to.
This story would seem to confirm the arguments made by Glenn and some other commenters that the authorities in California bear some of the blame for the failure to extradite Polanski. Like some other commenters, I'm inclined to think that the Swiss argument was a conclusion...
Now this is starting to make me feel old: Former Brewers outfielder Geoff Jenkins will announce his retirement on Friday. Jenkins has scheduled a press conference before Milwaukee's game against Pittsburgh to.
Katha Pollitt wonders at what point an artist gets his or her "one free child rape" card: Like many people I have fantasies about getting away with a crime, so.
The idea that "Republican elected officials" may not care about deficits and small government but "American conservatives" do is indeed absurd: One piece of pushback I got from some right-of-center folks to yesterday’s post on how conservatives don’t care about the deficit was to say that...
Digby: Since the Village is essentially a Republican town perhaps they assumed that liberals were all going to be the same dead-enders the Bush cultists were, defending their man until.
This article, about Pakistan's preference for F-16s is pretty interesting: Pakistanis are fascinated, if not obsessed, with F-16 fighter jets. It is the best fighting aircraft in the fleet of.