Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson.Best bailout-related caption wins.
Over e-mail, Glenn has suggested that the origins of posse comitatus in the United States are irrelevant to the wisdom of maintaining the policy today. I only partially agree with.
With all due respect to Paul, my latte-sipping colleague, it bears pointing out that neither he nor his libertarian friend have taken the time to consider the possibility that Sarah.
I've been having an argument today with my friend JJ about whether Sarah Palin is, as Jeeves says of his employer, "mentally negligible." JJ (who btw is a hardcore libertarian who is voting for McCain on a lesser of two evils basis) watched the latest clips...
Doesn't look awful at first glance, although of course we'll see what makes it into the final deal. This is the key:They also said that there would be limits on.
In spite of the fact that I teach for a living and have been running my own courses for about 15 years, I experience tremendous, daily pre-class anxiety, enhanced by.
I'm baffled by this quasi-rationalization of McCain's reprehensible campaign from erstwhile McCain-lover Jon Chait:Any attempt to determine McCain's true motives is necessarily pure speculation. It's possible that McCain has convinced himself to actually believe the lies he has been telling. But here's a more likely explanation:...
Let me second Jason Sigger's shredding of Glenn Greenwald's handwringing regarding the assignment of a Brigade Combat Team to NORTHCOM, the combatant command responsible for the continental United States. Jason.
The preening debate cancellation nonsense seems to have a clear objective -- burying Sarah Palin for as long as possible. I guess you can't argue with the logic in a.
Sometime in the next 30 hours:(a) A bailout deal will be announced and McCain will participate in the debate.(b) McCain will announce that after personally taking part in the negotiations great progress has been made, a deal is imminent, and he can now in good conscience...
If they're going to pitch around you, take the goddamned walk. I know you're been trained to think as an "RBI man" but flailing at a pitch a foot and.
I'm re-writing this post to take into account the latest information (it turns out that I was looking at reporting that was a day old). Apparently the Democratic leadership is.