From Tacitus on Ralph Nader: Apropos of the efforts of some Republicans to secure a ballot slot for Ralph Nader, let me say that it's a moderately understandable tactical move and a terrible strategic one. Obviously a Nader presence is going to siphon off lefty votes that...
Since I am to busy to engage in actual, honest-to-goodness blogging, allow me to play Professor Instalinker and direct you to this fine post. Heh. Ouch!
Via Atrios and Crooked Timber, looks as if Focus on the Family has e-mailed Michael Moore's home address to its members. My first reaction, so what, this is the kind of stunt that.
Nick Confessore links to a nice article from the Columbia Journalism Review on the Iraqi National Congress and Western journalists. I'm no journalist, so I don't have a firm grip on the evidentiary standards of the profession. Political scientists would tend to look on defector-provided information as inherently suspect;...
In a conversation the other day, I expressed the idea that the war in Iraq damaged rather than advanced our war on terrorism, which produced a reaction of surprise and.
I refer, of course, to the picture to the right of the story.
I'm surprised that Eugene Volokh is surprised that O'Connor and Breyer vote together 70% of the time, the 8th most common pairing on the court. Breyer--as was proved yet again in his appalling dissent inAshcroft v. ACLU--is the "liberal" most likely to roll over, especially on civil...
As some of you may have noticed, I'm reaching the stage of frustration with the whole Nader thing I should have reached about four years ago. In a few weeks.
Michael Ignatieff has another mea culpa for his support of W's Iraqi adventure. His previous apology back in March (no link, behind a pay-per-view wall) I recall only hazily. It showed.
Good post at Crooked Timber about Turkish prospects in the EU. Here's Chirac letting GW have it for meddling in European affairs by arguing that Turkey should be a member. And here's Digby being, I think, a bit unfair. There are a few reasons why some EU member states...
I saw it Sunday afternoon. Not quite as boisterous a crowd as Rob and Scott were treated to, but enthusiastic enough. I found the film uneven, but undeniably and surprisingly.
Admittedly, identifying the worst manifestation of a silly concept badly executed is a wearying, impossible exercise, so identifying the very worst "Kerryism" is as inherently futile as discerning the worst.