Ezra provides a valuable service in two ways. First, he accurately summarizes the thesis of Maureen Dowd's new book (along with her other columns on the subject): "she and her friends are unmarried because their beauty, glamour, accomplishments, poise, wit, interests, intellectual acuity, and overwhelming beauty...
Shorter Charles Krauthammer: The rights of adult women and children are exactly comparable. Really, it's remarkable how much more sense the GOP position on abortion makes once we get this.
Kevin Drum thinks that Alito is signaling that he won't overturn Roe. Well, I suppose this is literally true, but I think Kevin is misreading what this means for his.
Friday Cat Blogging. . . Frodo
This is not good.
Here's a question. How, in a liberal democracy, do you even begin a conversation with someone who believes that God will solve all resource constraints?Via Matt.
Last November 2 was a bad day. Looking back at LGM, I note that I really didn't write anything about the election after November 2. Dave and Scott both wrote excellent wrap up posts that hold up, in particular this from Dave:Don’t despair, at least not...
As a break from the relentless Alito posts, why not a little more-MoDo bashing? It has been a few days, after all.Julia starts things off ny noting that her experiences.
Attempts by conservatives to make the case to progressives that it's somehow in their interests to have one of the most conservative judges in the Circuit Courts appointed to the.
I mentioned recently Roman Hurska's famous claim, in defending the hapless Nixon nominee Harold Carswell, that we "can't have all Brandeises and Cardozos and Frankfurters and stuff like that there." As I looked at this Media Matters piece, (via Atrios) I noted that Bill O'Reilly seems...
Shorter Kathryn-Jean Lopez: Why should the fact that we were staunch, substantive supporters of Southern apartheid during the Civil Rights movement stop conservatives from claiming Rosa Parks' legacy?And for some.
Quentin Tarantino's Republic Dogs...