I've been letting myself get a bit too optimistic about November, so it's time to discuss some possible reasons for pessimism. First, via Daniel Geffen, I direct your attention to this post be Ed Fitzgerald. I fear he may be prescient about this: What can you say about...
A short month ago, this approximately 0% of this blogs authors could plausibly affix a "Dr." in front of their names. That percentage has grown at an alarming rate, and.
First, if you're going to arrest someone and hold them incommunicado for two years, at least make sure that they're guilty. Oh, well, I guess that the latter may be connected.
One of the many great features on baseball reference.com is a feature that allows you to look up the players who share your birthday. (And to think my degree only took six years!) Alas, my team is almost as crappy as my list of celebrity birthdays (although Thora...
David Locke actually tackles an issue that the toadying local sports media generally won't touch: the Mariner's persistent inability to develop minor league position players. He identifies only five "impact".
Paperwight does an excellent job of limning Randy Cohen's ridiculous "Ethicist" column from this Sunday in the NYT Magazine. The key is here: Randy Cohen doesn't even bother to address the first part.
Kevin Drum does a good wrap up of the nonsense associated with Kerry's claims that he spent time in Cambodia during the Vietnam War. He establishes that Kerry has maintained a straight story since at least 1979, and that the story is on it's face plausible. This...
Or at least this is what John Farah would have you believe. Details from Digby; essentially, Farah is claiming that the only reason McCain has defended Kerry's cowardly lack service is that.
More on the appalling O'Reilly/Russert interview from the typically brilliant Bob Somerby. I think the important point the Howler emphasizes is Russert's culpability. To criticize O'Reilly for being a lying bully.
Matt at What is the War has a nice essay on the differences between the Clinton and Bush doctrines. For my part, I very much wonder how the conservatives (Instapundit, Tacitus.org, and so forth) have managed to seize the Darfur issue. Put another way, how is it...
Rob pointed out some time ago in this forum that when it comes to state-building, we should probably not expect the job to be done competently by those who have.
There are a lot of bad things about Kausfiles, and sometimes I find it difficult to sort them all out. There's the irrational Kerry hatred (I'd vote for the Philadelphia.