Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck and Nelson
The Editors point to some data that should compel us to keep things in perspective:House vote: 253-168 60.1%Republicans: 219-7 96.9%Democrats: 34-160 17.5%Senate vote: 65-34 65.7%Republicans: 53-1 98.1%Democrats: 12-32 27.3%As he,.
Perdro out for the season. And the NL playoffs keep getting more interesting...
The vote national disgrace tally doesn't seem to be up on Thomas yet. According to Lederman:Democrats voting in favor included Carper, Johnson, Landrieu, Lautenberg [!!], Lieberman[Seriously, Go Fuck Yourself Joe--Why Don't You Go Back To Moralizing About Stray Nipples On the TeeVee From the Private Sector],...
Yglesias and ogged ask about the constitutionality of the Arbitrary Detention and Torture Act of 2006. I wish I had good news, but...On the Habeas Corpus issue, the Constitution is.
A full list of the Senators who have disgraced themselves and their country by removing any meaningful constraints on the President's ability to detain and torture anybody at his whim.
I'm enthusiastically awaiting the arrival The Last King of Scotland in Lexington, but I must admit that Dana Stevens review of the film reminds me a little bit of Chinua Achebe's appraisal of Hearts of Darkness:Africa as metaphysical battlefield devoid of all recognizable humanity, into which...
Crooked Timber recently had a post asking what would have happened had the northern framers refused to go along with a Constitution that protected slavery. To posit a counterfactual at.
Chuckle: RICHMOND — U.S. Sen. George Allen once again is being told to lay off the Confederate flag. But this time, it's not from the people who abhor the Dixie.
A few baseball notes: As a commenter notes, Billy Beane has somehow won another division title, not only with a low payroll but with their ace starter limited to 34 innings, their putative star young shortstop injured most of the year and hitting like Angel Salazar...
Shorter Jonah Goldberg: Remember, it's not a lie...if you believe it. I can't decide what's more incoherent; Goldberg in torture, or Reynolds on leaks. (Actually, in a way, Reynolds' position.
Wow, Marty Peretz really is a piece of work. First, you get the Peretz attempt to be witty ("It is true that for a few years in recent times I.