Maybe it's not quite as satisfying as Stewart on Crossfire, but it's close: Lawrence O'Donnell finally speaks truth to Smear Boat Scumbag John O'Neill. I'm scared that Digby is right that O'Donnell may find speaking engagements on cable screamfests harder to come by in the future. But...
Nice catch by Matt Duss. For all that we were worried about the journalistic black hole that a Houston-Boston World Series would have precipitated, Bush actually has a much closer relationship.
Another of the American Conservative articles is an endorsement of the Constitution (sic) Party's candidate by founder Howard Phillips. One advantage of supporting a no-hope candidate is the potential for candor,.
Given the paucity of options for principled reactionaries, the editors of The American Conservative gave individual endorsements rather than a collective one. (Remarkable times; even Marty Peretz didn't insist on writing a separate endorsement for Bush when his editors supported Kerry.) The most perceptive comes from Justin Raimondo,...
Generally, the assumption that a tribute album will suck is as safe as assuming that a David Brooks column will be insipid hackery, and the rare exceptions are not likely.
Today, I showed The Battle of Algiers to my Military Intervention class. I was thinking about skipping out; a film doesn't really require my presence beyond an intial hit of.
Maybe Ted Barlow is being a bit unfair--why look at this gem of insight today from Mickey Kaus: Prodigal star Nation columnist Christopher Hitchens has returned to that magazine's pages with a short essay on why he would "slightly prefer" that President Bush win the election. But just...
It has been duly noted that John Kerry recently received the influential and crucial endorsement of Joss Whedon (a moment of silence, please, for Jonah Goldberg, as his "conservatism is ascendent.
Brad and Matt are having a conversation that I absolute must comment on. My inner nerd demands it. Brad Delong, thinking outside the box, concludes that Neville Chamberlain made a mistake.
People who let their cell phones ring during a movie? Scum. Students who let their cell phones ring during class? Slime. A Lecturer who lets his cell phone ring while showing "The Manchurian Candidate" to his American Foreign Policy class? Misunderstood.
Alex "Chop Whiney" Rodriguez, subsequent to his straight-outta junior league T-Ball cheap shot in Game 6, wondered why you can bowl over a catcher but why "his ploy was illegal.".
Fred Kaplan had a characteristically excellent article in Slate yesterday. He argues that no "military transformation" has actually occured during Rumsfeld's tenure at the top of the Defense Department. Rather, the.