With my vacation to the Midwest at last complete, it's time to face the immense despair that usually accompanies my return home. For starters, I'm furious that Jesse Helms decided to surrender the carbon while I was nowhere near a computer. I neglected to include Helms...
No. (I suppose this could work with other entries from the Maurice Starr oeuvre: "Step 2! There's so much we can do! To capitulate to Bush and expand arbitrary executive.
In light of Flint's attempt --and I mean, you can understand the priority, what with all of the city's economic and serious quality-of-life problems a thing of the past and.
If ads prominently featuring McCain declaring that Social Security is a "disgrace" aren't plastered over the airwaves -- with special emphasis on Florida and Pennsylvania -- the Democrats genuinely deserve to lose.
Shorter Verbatim MoDo: "Fictionalizing historical figures is fine. Fantasies about public figures are inevitable."Unlike (it seems) Somerby, I don't see the slightest problem with Sittenfeld using Laura Bush to write.
What's wrong with this sandwich?
Dahlia Lithwick has some interesting thoughts about why liberals tend to be much less focused on the courts than conservatives. I think she's right that the (often nominal) upholding of Warren Court precedents has made liberals more complacent about the direction of the Court than its...
Dan Nexon has a good post about the frenzy of dealmaking that the Bush administration is pursuing in an effort to "lock in" policy preferences before the transition to a.
This is a view of what, from where?
The main point here seems to be that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says many things about Israel, and that the sum total of these things is incoherent contradiction. As such, it doesn't make a ton of sense to credit what he says to one audience (the Iranian people)...
Dennis Farina? Not much of an Irishman.
Current TV's funnywoman Sarah Haskins is the smart woman's (and person's) answer to all the crap that popular culture throws at us. And unlike so many others in Hollywood, she.