A terrific article by Garrett Epps puts Karl Rove's pressuring of US Attorneys to pursue bogus "vote fraud" cases into the larger (and highly consequential) context of the GOP's vote fraud fraud. Epps also draws are attention to the Supreme Court's endorsement of the GOP's myths...
Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson
Granting that is was only half-serious, the below-discussed d-squared post on Budweiser reminds me of Kelefa Sanneh's arguments about rockism. Sanneh's underlying points are often quite correct: there's no particular.
Hugh Hewitt seems unable to distinguish between reality and the movies, which admittedly is a desirable quality in a Bush dead-ender...
Daniel Davies really likes Budweiser.I'm not prepared to refute or defend Davies' post -- it's actually quite interesting, even if his defense of Bud is actually a refutation of anti-Budweiser.
... and pretty much every other variant of videoblogging. The glorious thing that the internet gives us is precision; I can take interest in a particular point of a post.
There's a front page article in today's USA Today about the Pentagon's decision to convert to the MRAP, or Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle, as a replacement for the Humvee. The MRAP, it is argued, "provide twice as much protection against improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which...
The annual migration of the cruise ships began this week, and along with it the entire corporate ecosystem of Juneau erupted into life. It's pissing outside -- we live in.
As a staunch Giuliani opponent, I must admit a certain grudging admiration for his decision to be explicitly pro-choice rather than adopting the High Contrarian "I'm pro-choice, but it should.
I still don't know how I would respond to this.
Atrios makes an interesting point with respect to my argument that pro-lifers are likely to identify certain types of abortion is particularly immoral and use that as a wedge, and.
Via Kingdaddy, this is, like, pretty awesome.