Some high comedy from Benjamin Lambert, who was shown the door in the Democratic primary after trying to save the flailing campaign of racist airhead George Allen (and, hence, to keep the Senate in Republican hands):Lambert said, "I have no hard feelings. We ran a clean,...
Patrick Di Justo unearthed a 1943 Army handbook for US soldiers stationed in Iraq. Highlights: NEVER discuss religion or politics or women with Moslems. Don't stare at anyone. Remember the.
I was busy Monday and forgot to mention Krugman's great column. Bob Somerby summarizes for the non Select:“Authenticity” became the press corps’ favorite buzz-word in 1999, along with its silly.
The Nation on Hunter College and immigration.
No More Mister Nice Blog poses a question:According to Christopher Hitchens, what in the world today "stinks -- indeed it reeks -- of whatever horrible, buried, vicarious impulse underlies kiddie.
Andrew Ferguson....seriously, the "he doesn't have footnotes [because he has endnotes]!" routine? I can understand why Ferguson did it--he's a hack, is apparently entirely comfortable with comically transparent dissembling, and.
Several people have already commented about the self-immolation of Mudcat Saunders' poor-poor-pitiful-rural-Democrats shtick at Swampland. Obviously, substantive engagement with someone who declares that "I don't care what the "Metropolitan Wing" of my party thinks. I don't like them," while in the same paragraph claiming that the...
You live in Kentucky, you know a lot of people who go to the Creation Museum. Media Czech has an extended review, with plenty of cool pictures.
Like ogged, I wasn't sure how to respond to the news that Norman Finklestein has been denied tenure at DePaul (an issue I read a fair amount about when I.
Shorter D'Souza:"The universe is just like the DMV. Ergo, God exists. Praise Jesus!"Having recently spent time at the local DMV receiving my license and registration renewals, I can personally attest that few things offer absolute proof of a directionless -- if not openly malevolent -- universe...
Beyond the obvious, what's puzzling about Ken Baer's attack on Ezra is this claim: "[s]ome even go so far as to excuse the Iranian regime, the better to deny the.
Inspired by this. More here, with plenty of room for growth. Go nutz.Screw it. The internets are strange and confusing to me. I've been pounding my head against a wall.