Clinton and Obama to vote against cloture on the awful FISA legislation. Good. The two presidential candidates have the potential to be a serious counterwieght to the terrible job Reid has been doing on this issue, and I'm happy that they've taken responsibility.
To echo what Manohla Dargis, Glenn Kenney, Noy Thrupkaew and countless others have said, I really can't recommend the extraordinary Romanian picture 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days strongly.
From mjd:I think the meta-meme is that only the votes of white middle-class men really count. If they're angry the votes count double.
Another argument for the existence of Hell.Conservatives are prone to all sorts of uncontrolled yapping about the "Asian bloodbath" that followed the American loss in Vietnam. The bogosity of those claims need not detain us here, except to point out that they almost universally fail to...
Another example of tough rhetoric from street-fightin' Hillary Clinton. Admittedly, it involved using some of Dick Cheney's most specious arguments to defend Dick Cheney's very worst policy, but hey, tough.
You know, Jesse Jackson won Michigan in 1988. Does this mean that Obama automatically gets to claim the Michigan delegates?
A while ago I read this interesting New Yorker profile of Joel Surnow. As is well known, Surnow's fascination with the ticking time bomb scenario provides repeated narrative justification for putting Kiefer Sutherland in a room with a variety of torture implements and some unfortunate terrorist....
Well, that's enough; I'm no longer willing to be charitable about all the Clinton surrogates who just happen to mention Obama's suspiciously Muslim middle name, teenaged drug use, etc. etc..
Next year, just get the goddamned flu shot. Leave the very young and very old to their own fate, and don't invent stories in your head about "shortages" that don't.
Charli at Duck has an interesting notion:One of the articles I read as I prepped for this trip suggested that either the Holy See should lose this status or, to be fair, other religions should be represented as well.Interesting idea, eh? Suppose Saudi Arabia, for example,...
Andy over at Siberian Lights has a nice little history of the Battle of Khalkhin-Gol. Khalkhin-Gol was the outcome of several years of competition between the Soviet Union and Japan.
This one from the Times' choice, John McCain (via the Daily Women's Health Policy Report): On the issue of appointments to the Supreme Court, McCain mentioned that Sam Brownback would.