Should this indeed be the last year for my beloved Expos, the fine folks at Sadly, No! note that the 'Spos' mascot--I don't know what animal he/she is supposed to represnt, but it's very orange!--has a job waiting for him: blowhard-in-chief for a wingnut media organization. If only...
Ugh, now I remember why I avoid reading Dowd. Rob, I understand your animus towards Friedman, but Dowd must go first. Could you write a more vapid, gossipy, content-free 800.
Here's a dialogue between Tacitus and Steve Sailer. Sailer insists that racial inequality is based on biology, and Tacitus drops the hammer on him. More commentary from Orcinus. Maybe the NYT should hire.
Fred Kaplan at Slate discusses the Army's conclusions about the first stages of the Iraq II. From a very cursory glance, seems pretty accurate to me. We have all seemed to forget that the invasion did not come off without a hitch; there were pretty serious concerns all the way...
World O' Crap has been analyzing Family Circus cartoons as a running gag. Check this out.
Add me to the draft Ehrenreich campaign. This is one damn fine column. With the Repubs starting to fire up their "class warfare" crap against Edwards, it's important to remember who is actually.
Slow day at LGM, no posts attacking Ralph Nader or warning of Iranian nukes. I wonder if there's a way we could solve both of those problems at once. . . The UW Political Science Department softball team, the Fighting Filibusters, is off to a historically...
It's always nice to see smart people say something I've been saying for years. First, Jacob Levy. A solid lifelong tried-and-true libertarian (something I've always wondered how he might square.
From Juan Cole: One of the scandals that has been reported but hasn't really broken yet is the way in which Halliburton gained contracts to provide services to US troops in.
Apparently, all intelligence failures related to the Iraq War are the fault of the CIA. Never mind that the neocons set up an independent intelligence operation in the Pentagon because the CIA estimates were too dovish. Never mind that hawks relentlessly denounced the CIA for furnishing insufficient evidence of...
While I generally have more discipline than Rob and Scott about this sort of thing, I had to take a peek and see how our old friend Mickey Kaus was.
As Scott noted, if the GOP wants to use the evil trial lawyer theme, I say bring it on. Let's actually look at what Edwards did as a trial lawyer,.