The fine folk at The Rittenhouse Review offer us a meaningful choice in this election year: the best ADA in Law & Order history. The answer, of course, is "Jill Hennessy." I agree that Rohm is the worst, although revisionist viewers have tended to airbrush Angie Harmon's awfulness....
Atrios's instincts are right on all counts--Scalia is correct, and that is scary. To provide the background, the decision today in Blakeley is an extension of the Court's 2000 decision Apprendi v. New.
For no particular reason, I'm taking the Beltran to Houston deal pretty hard.
A great question, and one of several great lines from the new Wilco album, but you have to hear it in the context of the song to get the full impact. "Wishful Thinking" is probably my favorite track so far from the new album, although at...
Gadflyer on Hitch on Moore. Getting through Hitchens can be a trial, but it's worth it for the Gadflyer commentary. Going to see F-911 early tomorrow afternoon, will relate impressions, as I'm.
Another interesting post by Cass Sunstein, guest-blogging at Volokh. I think his insight is correct and very useful. It becomes particularly clear if you look at a constitutional system like Britain,.
Well, I just had my first blogger-eaten post. Dammit. 20 minutes I'll never get back. Here's the thrust of it: Atrios is right (as usual). The obsessive handwringing about VP selections (like Yglesias and Klein on Gephardt, for example) is unnecessary and counterproductive. The VP matters very...
A new low from Zell Miller "Democrat" Mickey Kaus. The good news is that Count Hackula expressed a progressive political sentiment for the first time since the Nixon Administration. The bad news is that he uses transparently fake anti-misogyny.
Reluctant as I am to disagree with both Atrios and my co-bloggers, I think Yglesias is pretty clearly right here: ...as I've been discovering, Washington insiders not on the AFL-CIO payroll.
The Hardball Times evaluates the "Productive Outs" stat now being used by ESPN--expect to get the hard sell from your local broadcaster soon. Anyway, a team's tendency to make "productive outs" has a strong negative correlation with both scoring runs and winning. Apparently, getting on base and...
I don't have much to add to the Poor Man on North Korea, or to Matt Yglesias on Sadr. I'd just like to reiterate how happy I am that the grown ups.
Interesting report flew by on the New York Times: The success of the Indian air force against American fighter planes in a recent exercise suggests other countries may soon be able.