Still glad that Andy's back: Paris never wanted to be involved, but the notion that even a chief appeaser of Islamist terror can escape its fury is getting less and less persuasive. French journalists have been kidnapped in Iraq in protest of France's admirable secularism in...
Andy's back, and he's pissed. The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans. This is an almost seventeenth century piece of public sectarianism and anti-Catholic bigotry. But.
The letter Economist editor Clive Crook wrote to Brad DeLong makes use of a ploy that, while a familiar tactic of wingnut hacks, is particularly dismaying coming from an intelligent conservative: He.
Don't have much to say yet about the investigation into Larry Franklin for sending secrets to Israel. If you're interested, check out Juan Cole, who has an extensive analysis, and this article by Josh Marshall, who's been working on the story for quite some time. If you're interested...
Lindsay Beyerstein draws our attention to a truly dismaying attempt to Johnny Cash as a symbol for Republican politics. Appalling. I wear the black for the poor and the beaten.
The decline in affirmative action over the last several years should be a major cause for concern for anyone interested in social justice. We often hear from rightwingers how affirmative.
I use this space to vent about the various pathologies of the New York Times pretty regularly, but I'll say this for that particular: in the post-Janet "Titanic is the movie of the year" Maslin era, they've had some very good film criticism. One of the big...
When I was in Montreal on Wednesday, two justices were appointed to the Canadian Supreme Court. Media coverage has focused on the fact that 1)the Canadian court now has an apparently.
In response to a request for more baseball blogging. . . Ichiro Suzuki became the first player to get 200 hits in each of his first four major league seasons.
In a coup for the blogosphere, fafblog obtains a rare interview with the President.
Once again, Muqtada Al-Sadr challenges the Occupation, and once again the confrontation ends with him still breathing. This is a terribly conceived war, and I never really held out much.
Digby, channelled by Ezra Klein, has it quite right: Imagine if the swiftees had come out with this and the public hadn't been given the full star spangled banner routine with.