Julie Saltman (1,2) and the Mock Turtle offer progressive defenses for keeping the filibuster rules. Since they raise a lot of interesting points, I'll address the most important ones individually. Again, I should make clear that this is not a defense of the "nuclear option"; I...
Shorter Bobo: Even I, a conservative whose stock in trade is dividing groups of people into overgeneralized camps and talks about "epidemics" of oral sex and gnashes his teeth about.
Some people may remember that Ezra Klein was a proponent of Kathleen Sebelius for the Veep slot in '04. Made sense to me--any woman who could attain the Kansas governorship.
Ted Barlow points us to an interesting Onion piece about bad scenes in great movies. To me, the choice is easy: the scene in The Godfather Part II where Kay confronts Michael. It's jarring to find a below-average soap opera scene in one of the very...
Friday Cat Blogging. . . Stromboli
Lindsay has asked me to participate in the "Caesar's Bath" question--i.e., five things that similarly situated people tend to like that you don't really get. Unfortunately, many of the the.
Heh-indeedy.
Given the interesting comments by several friends of this blog (including Lance Mannion, Russell Arben Fox, and Ezra Klein), a few more comments in re: cultural conservatism of indeterminate contours..
Wow.Who should I vote for?Your expected outcome:LabourYour actual outcome: Labour 18Conservative -53 Liberal Democrat 60UK Independence Party -14 Green 2You should vote: Liberal DemocratThe LibDems take a strong stand against.
For the likes of myself, Rob, Glenn, and no doubt many other readers. MSN.com, which I'm apparently too lazy to remove as my default homepage for IE, published a front-page article on "the fastest growing jobs in the US--where qualified applicants, not the employers, have the...
Phoebe Maltz has the ultimate response to the ridiculous "man date" story in the Times. When I saw the thing, I actually considered tossing off a one-line post about how.
I am infected.You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?Jorge Luis Borges, Collected FictionsHave you ever had a crush on a fictional character?Not really. The closest.