I lied earlier--Charles Pierce's comments at Altercation are highly necessary: I've made peace with the fact that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court once served the cause of white supremacy at polling stations in Arizona, and that Justice Thomas probably did everything of which he was...
This morning, Glenn Reynolds had seven spontaneous involuntary orgasms. Of course, the story tells us nothing new, as the contacts involved seem just about what the 9/11 Commission has suggested. Let's.
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.
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 Jersey (also written by Scalia), in which the Court ruled that sentences given out by judges...
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.
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 sure will Scott. Have been enthused by the reviews th
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.
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 to bash Bill Clinton. [Even though he made every excuse in the book for Governor Wolfcastle, despite...
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.