Jon Chait gets the modern GOP down cold:Of all the low points during the Bush administration, perhaps the most surreal was the week in December 2004 when Bernie Kerik was poised to become secretary of Homeland Security. By the traditional measures used to judge qualifications for...
Just to be clear, I'm not claiming that there's any right answer to balances of aesthetic (or other) pleasures and health risks, that drawing broad inferences based on consumption patterns.
As Rob notes below, TAPPED has completed a spanking new re-design, so check it out. I have a post about Rudy and the NRO up.
One thing I don't understand about the right-blogger gnashing of teeth about impoverished-homeless-man's Erma Bombeck Jim Lileks's column being spiked by the Strib (the best line among the many funny counter-reactions, in response to someone comparing Lileks to E.B. White (!): "I say, imagine E.B. White...
Huh. Ted Poe (R-TX) thinks it's appropriate to quote Nathan Bedford Forrest on the floor of the House of Representatives. Forrest, a major figure in the early KKK, also led.
Saw Spiderman III on Saturday. Although I'm as incredulous as Scott regarding Matt's self-assessment as "usually a relatively harsh judge of films", I do think Yglesias is more or less.
November 1996 - 7 May 2007I've never been known as a great enthusiast of my own species, but it seems indisputable that the planet would be better off if cats and humans swapped life expectancies. This year has not been kind to the feline companions of...
Hilzoy just gets cruel. Have some mercy, and call off the dogs, already. Oh, wait... it's Mitt Romney. Please dispatch additional dogs.
I discuss this a bit in the post below, but I think this part of Jill's post is worth emphasizing. She proposes a narrowly tailored remedy that that avoids the.
Bean has a good account of the successful push to stop a bad Oklahoma abortion regulation. Obviously, pro-choicers can't just rely on the courts; every veto point needs to be put into play wherever possible.
Via Ailes, Peretz discerns the majoritarian implications of Sarkozy's victory:Majorities have a right--even an obligation--to preserve their own ethics, norms, cultures and histories. They have a right to define the.
An excellent comment threads here. To respond to some points:First, from the left, Mithras has some good points. He's right, of course, that this policy involves "censorship"; what I meant.