Turns out that the U.S. Senate has nothing better to do than to spend time passing a resolution to condemn free speech. Yep, you read that right: the Senate today officially condemned MoveOn.org for its (brilliant) Betray-Us ad. John Cornyn (R-TX) sponsored the amendment, which passed...
This may surprise some folks, but I'd like to congratulate Victor Davis Hanson for stumbling upon the perfectly uncontroversial notion that Osama is bug-fuck crazy:The truth is that bin Laden.
From a (generally unfavorable) David Garrow review of Jeffrey Toobin's new Brethrenesque book about the Supreme Court:Toobin devotes two chapters to Bush vs. Gore, the case that decided the 2000.
Garance reminds me of Belle Waring on Fred Thompson: "First of all, are women voters, taken as a whole, really so much like retarded kittens in our motivations? And secondly, doesn’t Fred Thompson pretty much look like a basset hound who’s just taken a really satisfying...
Erik points out that John Hillcoat of The Proposition is set to direct Cormac McCarthy's The Road, with Viggo Mortensen starring as the father character. Like Erik, I have mixed.
Apparently Pitchfork is an almost entirely all-male preserve -- indeed, there are more reviews by guys named "Mark" than by women. [Via Ann and Amanda , the latter of whom.
If you think eating meat is presumptively bad, skip this post.Yum. Beef. It's what's for dinner -- for tonight at least. For me, and for Frank Bruni too. Last month, Scott (yes, Lemieux) and I went to Peter Luger's. We had a great meal. Super service,...
Matt said recently that he "feels like Clinton is drawing close to checkmating her opponents." Dana reminds us that it's still early; Ezra avers that "it's hard to make up.
Fascinating; I find out that David Brin has a Daily Kos diary and a blog on the same day that I teach David Brin's Thor Meets Captain America in National.
The Habeas Restoration bill failed 56-43; Christy has the tally. Unless I missed one, no Democrat voted "naye," including Nelson, Landrieu, and Conrad. The ever-more-disgraceful Joe Lieberman, of course, did. My question: where exactly is the ongoing "Rebellion or Invasion"? Hopefully the Supreme Court will correct...
Brad Plumer and Noam Scheiber have a good article about the loathsome GOP corporate lackey Haley Barbour, the kind of "small government" Republican who ensures that any budget deal contains.
Pompeii, 79 CE.The Great Fire of London, 1666Irish Famine, 1840sTangshan Earthquake, 1976Boston Red Sox, 2007?Seriously, I don't think I can watch this shit any longer. If someone could please get.