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.
He's a real class act:The setup: Yankees winning, 7-5, two out and two on, top of the ninth. Jorge Posada pops up to third. Howie Clark camps under it. Rodriguez trots by and yells “Ha!” (according to him). Clark thinks it’s the shortstop, John McDonald, calling...
The U.S. Attorney had to know he was in trouble with the Bush administration. What was his offense, you might ask? Corruption? Refusing to prosecute serious crimes? Hitting on Laura.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that Glenn Beck's Headline News ratings are in the rubbish bin, but I would have thought that at least 200,000 people across the country.
The small band of people arguing that Sam Alito would be anything but a catastrophe for liberal constitutional values had very few arguments available to them, given the overwhelming evidence that he would be (including the extremely high esteem in which Alito is held by those...
Media Czech has finished his Atheist's Guide to the 2007 Kentucky Elections. I understand that he is preparing a similar document for the Presidential primary field...
The Times' Dave Leonhardt does a pretty decent job today of surveying Lou Dobbs' fact-free mental landscape (though it should be noted that nothing Leonhardt has to say couldn't have.
Hilzoy points to another in the endless series of empirical studies and professional testimonials indicating that torture is useless for the purpose of intelligence-driven interrogation. There's no value trade-off here; torture is both bad and useless. So why do Republican presidential candidates have such a hard...
"You ask for a miracle, I give you...Armando Benitez." Between the beautiful day and the Perez/Lincecum matchup, I made am impulse decision to buy Mets tickets yesterday (even with the.
Twain, 1904 or 1905:O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms.