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 officially end his 11-year career. Jenkins played 10 of his 11 seasons with Milwaukee and made...
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.
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 the day he was out of office (and then insisting they never liked him in the...
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.
The Jedi Principle runs so: If you need the Jedi in order to make your project work, don't start. The Jedi Principle comes to mind in the context of defenses.
Shorter Karl Rove, more or less:Seven years ago today, Democrats began calling George Bush a warmongering, lying knucklefucker. Unfortunately, I was too busy helping destroy Valerie Plame's career to recommend much of a forceful response. Now, our economy is wrecked, I am divorced, and we are...
So writes everyone's favorite conservative blogger, seemingly confused as to whether he's a teenager now or in 1955. Not that he's "teenybopper blogging," but when you think that Selena Gomez,.
North Korea adds insult to injury:
I hadn't read Andrew O'Hehir's screed against unemployed movie critic bellyaching until Wolcott linked to it, but I think that both O'Hehir and Wolcott make solid points about the future of film criticism. Wolcott: I miss those days, but they’re not coming back, any more than...
Tom Friedman: This whole spy story has the feel of one of those senior tennis tournaments — John McEnroe against Jimmy Connors, long after their primes — or maybe a.
Nice to see the Second Circuit rule correctly on the "fleeting expletive" issue the Supreme Court dodged in a sometimes embarrassing opinion by alleged First Amendment absolutist Antonin Scalia.