Yesterday I read, for the first time, an issue of New York's latest sinkhole for the dollars of reactionary philanthropists, the New York Sun. They hit my price: they were handing them out free in the subway. (And I emphasize the "handing out"; if they were...
Lawyers, Guns and Money extends its heartfelt congratulations to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, sausage eating bastard and now Pope Benedict XVI. He's 78, so we'll probably have to go through all.
I don't pick up most trends before they become cool. In fact, I don't pick up many trends that are cool right now. My coolness meter has about a two.
How long must we go without a single infallible human?
Jeffrey Rosen's article about the "Constitution in Exile" movement is good (more on that later, if only to make fun of Richard Epstein), but this being Rosen he concludes with.
Julie Saltman (1,2) and the Mock Turtle offer progressive defenses for keeping the filibuster rules. Since they raise a lot of interesting points, I'll address the most important ones individually..
Shorter Bobo: Even I, a conservative whose stock in trade is dividing groups of people into overgeneralized camps and talks about "epidemics" of oral sex and gnashes his teeth about sex columns in college newspapers, am more skeptical about claims that Americans are uncrtically shaped by...
Some people may remember that Ezra Klein was a proponent of Kathleen Sebelius for the Veep slot in '04. Made sense to me--any woman who could attain the Kansas governorship.
Ted Barlow points us to an interesting Onion piece about bad scenes in great movies. To me, the choice is easy: the scene in The Godfather Part II where Kay.
Friday Cat Blogging. . . Stromboli
Lindsay has asked me to participate in the "Caesar's Bath" question--i.e., five things that similarly situated people tend to like that you don't really get. Unfortunately, many of the the.
Heh-indeedy.