I suspect a lot of folks who never considered taking the train before found themselves momentarily curious to hear that Amtrak was offering $100 in free booze for passengers on certain long-distance routes. Alas, like nearly everything in this life, the offer sounds better than it...
I must admit, seeing the camera pan around Wrigley Field before the game made me wish I was at Yearly Kos (well, I wouldn't have been at Yearly Kos now.
News today of a new study that demonstrates that young single women living in big cities earn more than their male counterparts. This of course stands in stark opposition to.
Ah, I believe we would have here our wanker of the day. I also note that 1)the money made by hedge fund managers is clearly compensation not capital gains, and 2)taxing capital gains at lower rates is stupid anyway. Oh, and hedge funds are on average...
Following up on Bean's excellent analysis from earlier this week, Lindsay notes the shifts in language in the way the story was covered, and brings us to the obvious bottom.
UPDATE: Matt Sanchez reports that Beauchamp's Brigade Combat Team has issued a report indicating that Beauchamp's stories have been "proven false". Sanchez hasn't given any citation for this report thus.
Welcome to the first installment of Dunce O' the Week. This week's winner wasn't a hard pick: Bill O'Reilly (this may be the first of many weeks he wins). Why? Well, his relentless blogger bashing has not gone unnoticed this time. Chris Dodd (about whom I...
As you - loyal readers - now know (because I write about it ad nauseum), the criminal justice system's reliance on eyewitness testimony has led to many many (many) false.
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck and Nelson
Diane Feinstein, who cast the key vote to let arch-reactionary Leslie Southwick out of the Judiciary Committee. Apparently, she saw the Roberts Court's first term, liked what she saw, and figured that the federal courts could use yet another neoconfederate judge. This would be one thing...
Showing how much my instincts can be trusted, the "Scott Thomas" story turns out to have been solid, with the only demonstrable error a trivial detail irrelevant to the main.
Pictured above: The Dead-Enders Caucus, meeting with the president for Tang, butter cookies and frank conversation about "the calling of our time."By sheer chance, I actually happened to catch Mark.