A short month ago, this approximately 0% of this blogs authors could plausibly affix a "Dr." in front of their names. That percentage has grown at an alarming rate, and now stands at roughly 67%. If you prefer to get your commentary from only the hyper-overeducated...
First, if you're going to arrest someone and hold them incommunicado for two years, at least make sure that they're guilty. Oh, well, I guess that the latter may be connected.
One of the many great features on baseball reference.com is a feature that allows you to look up the players who share your birthday. (And to think my degree only.
David Locke actually tackles an issue that the toadying local sports media generally won't touch: the Mariner's persistent inability to develop minor league position players. He identifies only five "impact" players drafted by the M's since Edgar Martinez was called up in 1987. He doesn't define...
Paperwight does an excellent job of limning Randy Cohen's ridiculous "Ethicist" column from this Sunday in the NYT Magazine. The key is here: Randy Cohen doesn't even bother to address the first part.
Kevin Drum does a good wrap up of the nonsense associated with Kerry's claims that he spent time in Cambodia during the Vietnam War. He establishes that Kerry has maintained a.
Or at least this is what John Farah would have you believe. Details from Digby; essentially, Farah is claiming that the only reason McCain has defended Kerry's cowardly lack service is that McCain is also a traitor. One of Farah's talking points reminded me of something I wanted...
More on the appalling O'Reilly/Russert interview from the typically brilliant Bob Somerby. I think the important point the Howler emphasizes is Russert's culpability. To criticize O'Reilly for being a lying bully.
Matt at What is the War has a nice essay on the differences between the Clinton and Bush doctrines. For my part, I very much wonder how the conservatives (Instapundit, Tacitus.org,.
Rob pointed out some time ago in this forum that when it comes to state-building, we should probably not expect the job to be done competently by those who have no faith whatsoever in the positive power of the state--those who treat state power as a...
There are a lot of bad things about Kausfiles, and sometimes I find it difficult to sort them all out. There's the irrational Kerry hatred (I'd vote for the Philadelphia.
Why does conservative humor suck? I'm prepared to be convinced that I'm wrong, because my case studies are Dennis Miller, Colin Quinn, and Mallard Fillmore, but it seems that conservative-inspired.