As you may have heard, Christopher Hitchens wrote an article in Vanity Fair this week ruminating on the fact that a young man, recently killed in Iraq, may have taken one of Hitchens columns as inspiration for joining the US Army. Hitchens response to this event...
I have mixed feelings regarding the ignominious participation of the Cubs in this year's playoffs. I'm happy to see them lose, and glad that the defeat came in the form.
After reading the piece about Fort Hunt in today's WaPo, I'm going to propose a new rule for wingnuts: All efforts to recruit the historical legacy of the "greatest generation".
It's not wise to attribute too much wisdom to the "wisdom of the crowds", such that it is, but I'm nevertheless struck by just how dominant Hillary Clinton is in the presidential betting markets. She's currently priced at $41.20 (for a $100 return), while the next...
I missed much of today's rare instance of justice on Earth at various parental visitation and birthday party related programed activities. But I left dinner to hear descriptions of the.
...that the quality and quantity of healthcare is vastly different depending on where you live, what your racial and ethnic background is, and how much money you have. And the.
One of my favorite sections of Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class dwells on the "pecuniary reputation" of certain varieties of domesticated animals. In short, Veblen argues that while they invest considerable effort cultivating the aesthetically worthy -- which is to say practically worthless --...
The major Republican candidates have all endorsed Bush's appalling veto of S-CHIP. If the Democratic candidate can't repeatedly hammer his or her opponent throughout the campaign for this, they don't.
I certainly agree with Yglesias that "It would be a big, big problem for Giuliani's general election campaign to have any of the major cultural conservative institutions backing a third.
Shorter Verbatim Daily Conservative, in re: one of the corporations that Made Milwaukee Famous sponsoring the Folsom Street Fair: "They’re still crappy beer, now they’re crappy gay beer." Oh noes! (Alas, Coors would seem to be out too; I'm not sure if Schiltz or Hamm's have...
The war on parody proceeds at full speed.UPDATE by bean: . . . and look who's laughing.
You might ask "How could it get any worse?" To that query, I reply "Mr. James Kirchick."First things first, in accusing Eric Alterman and Matt Yglesias of nihilism for the.