Steve Gilliard has passed away. It seems inconceivable to me, and he will be missed sorely by all who knew him. Condolences to his friends and family, who provided such staunch support throughout his illness....Jane has a remarkably eloquent tribute....Julia, TPNH, and the Talking Dog remember....
Jewel's talent, no matter how much you disparage it, has made thousands, and millions of people happy. That's a pretty good accomplishment for anyone. And what have you done? Established.
Marcy: "you've got to feel sorry for Mike Allen and the Politico. He's not going to be the same reporter without his best source." Indeed. Of course, when your job.
With things already looking bad, I had to keep turning away from yesterday's Sox/Yankees fiasco because Kay wouldn't shut up about poor Slappy and how he's being unfairly criticized. I even think that the play in question, while bush league, wasn't quite as heinous as many...
Daytona Beach, Florida.
Matt has one obvious rejoinder to David Brooks's pean to the mediocre character actor and undistinguished one-term+ Senator who seems to be the GOP's New Fresh Hope for '08. So.
Simon Lazarus and Rochelle Bobroff have more on Alito in the wake of his casting the decisive vote in the awful Ledbetter decision:In the meantime, they can expect more opinions in this vein from the Roberts Court. Justice Alito's solicitude for employers is not new. Before...
Friday Cat Blogging... Desdemona
Yesterday was our third birthday.Happy birthday to us. And hearty thanks to all of our readers, without whom none of this would matter.
Here's Neo-neocon, once again draping herself in her pre-9/11 hairshirt, offering further insight into why she wasn't outraged by Chappaquiddick until four planes descended from the sky and shattered her world:But a much greater favorite [childhood book] was Ferdinand the Bull. Ah Ferdinand, Ferdinand, he of...
Put me squarely in the Meyerson camp:Many of my antiwar friends were furious at Democratic congressional leaders last week for their failure to attach withdrawal deadlines to or cut funding.
David Axe has the story of the Santa Fe, an Argentine diesel-electric submarine that fought off a swarm of British helicopters before succumbing:Cut off and incommunicado, the Santa Fe's crew.