One comment from the thread Scott linked to at Sadly, No! really captures it:The question is, how many more turns of Anarchy until the Iraqis can select Democracy as their form of government? And do you get the feeling that the Bushies always play on Novice...
In Chicago conferencing; blogging from my end will be intermittent over the next two days.
Shorter Christopher Hitchens: "The press has destroyed freedom of the press by using it to present information unfavorable to the current administration."
The story of Kansas Attorney General Phil Kline's attempt to rifle through the health and sexual records of adolescent girls has been rebuffed once again in U.S. District Court; Lizardbreath has the news and links to the decision. She also makes a good point:Something that gets...
Was Scott McClellan just about the lamest press secretary in recent memory? Ari Fleischer was great; wore Evil on his sleeve and didn't care who saw it. McClellan was pathetic.
Ah, that's more like it. As is generally the case when not writing about John McCain (which, alas, I may have to come back to for another round) or Iraq,.
Not to pile on the Euston Manifesto boys (although they heartily deserve it), but this needs some extra attention:The violation of basic human rights standards at Abu Ghraib, at Guantanamo, and by the practice of "rendition", must be roundly condemned for what it is: a departure...
I had been meaning to get to Pamela Paul's defense of Caitlin Flanagan's upper-class anti-feminism--which essentially argues that people vociferously disagree with Flanagan's crude gender stereotypes and bourgie conformism because.
USA Today has a handy-dandy chart showing what a post-Roe landscape would look like. As you can see, despite disingenuous claims that overturning Roe is no big deal, roughly 200.
Great.Nice to see Pedro get #200 last night. (Oddly, it's the second time I've seen a pitcher named "Martinez" win his 200th win live; I saw Dennis' in Florida in 1993.) You'll see that Pedro's most comparable pitcher right now is Sandy Koufax. This, however, is...
PSST...McCain is an unprincipled reactionaryIs there any more pathetic spectacle than the ongoing crush that some centrist liberals have on John McCain? Even liberals who one would think (Iraq excepted,.
Ezra Klein notes Hastert and Frist trying to blame Democrats for the House GOP passing a breathtakingly reactionary immigration bill. Good luck with that.Serious question: How do we account for.