Blogger and commentator Heather Wokusch lists the top-ten worst Bush appointees for reproductive health and rights -- the people whose noses Bush has allowed to intrude most into your bedroom. Her choices are spot-on. Among them: Tom Coburn, the then-Representative (now senator) who believes that doctors...
The Winter Classic was, in fact, pretty much the coolest thing ever (albeit in both senses), providing welcome New Year's Day relief from the exhibition games between also-ran amateur football.
Great moments in church signage, from my last night in Minneapolis:My favorite element here is actually the "For Sale" sign in the background.
What should be my outrage about wrong-about-everything hack Bill Kristol getting a New York Times gig because apparently the dozens of other media outlets he seems to have unlimited access to aren't enough is attenuated by the fact that the Paper O' Record still employs Maureen...
Anyone know any good academic/policy oriented articles on Spanish security policy? Or, really, anything at all about Spanish security policy?
Hitchens gets this right....and Kaus too! (via.) Apparently we've finally found a use for contrarianism......actually, scrolling down I should say that while I support Kaus's anti-caucus position, I obviously disagree.
No, you're not on candid camera, but you are on camera in the U.S. virtually all the time. According to a new study from Privacy International, a UK-based group, and the U.S.-based Electronic Privacy Information Center, the U.S. and the U.K., along with Russia and China,...
Jamie Moyer is not a steroid user. His 62 mph fastball is a purely natural phenomenon.
Via Matt comes this map, which is genuinely awesome. I initially thought that it was an overlay of density data on an old map, but apparently it was created by.
Midwestern travel and social obligations prevent me from writing too much today, but on the 113th anniversary of John Edgar Hoover's birth, it's worth recalling the words of Benjamin Spock, who offered this anti-eulogy on the day of Hoover's death in 1972.It was a relief to...
I'm not going to get into the question of Juno and abortion because I reject the idea that the picture is a "brief" for or against anything; this might be.
JMM and Digby are correct: it's outrageous that Ron Paul is being excluded from the Fox News debates (and apparently by Fox; the state GOP wants him included.) No, I.