I check out the Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count every day. Sometimes this makes me feel a bit ghoulish; at other times I think it's important to keep track of most notable cost of this war to the United States. As of today, 920 American soldiers have...
A double bit of bad news--The Beta Band is breaking up, and their farewell tour will be limited to the UK. I should've got my act together and gone to.
In case you were tempted to take the current terror warning at face value as a serious attempt to warn the public of a potential danger.... -Much of the information that.
This NYT profile of conservative vanity candidate Ralph Nader has some useful information. First, I think we can put to rest the rationalization that, against all evidence, Nader would refrain from attacking Kerry and focus on Bush: To Ralph Nader, the Democratic convention in Boston was a...
Jon Stewart just conducted the best interview of this campaign. He got Henry Bonilla, Republican Congressman, to essentially admit that the Republican oppo research was bullshit. And he managed to.
I don't really have much to add to Kevin Drum, Laura Rozen, Jesse Taylor, Digby, or Matt Yglesias on this. I tend to agree with Digby that this is likely the work of John.
It would be difficult to imagine a movie from a major filmmaker sounding worse that Spike Lee's latest joint, She Hate Me. The centerpiece of the film apparently involves a fired whistleblower who impregnates a series of lipstick lesbians, all of whom end up really digging...
Tacitus is a fine blogger, and it's really too bad that he's gone on vacation for a month, and turned tacitus.org over to schmoes like this: Which is actually more.
Read Josh Marshall on the uranium hoax. The entire saga is a perfect case study for the difficulties of intelligence work. An implausible narrative is floated to the intelligence agency of.
It's been amusing to watch some of the reaction to the Convention over the last week, especially to Barack Obama. Jesse Taylor at Pandagon has the latest attempt to claim Obama for the Republicans. . . It's not that I don't believe there are genuine compassionate conservatives....
Matt Yglesias has (justly) come under fire for his recent posts arguing against civil rights protections for gay people on the basis of conservertarian bromides that weren't persuasive when the Supreme Court.
Michael Berube offers some voluntary editing services to a Cal Thomas column perhaps more egregiously stupid than the one by some tall blond guy that USA Today killed earlier this.