Nick Kristof's column today is very good, and by my estimation right on just about all counts. As an added bonus, it contains almost no direct or indirect references to the author's daring globetrotting adventures in dogoodery. Here's an important and oft-understated point: Be realistic. We don't...
A particularly silly post by Josh Chafetz getting into a lather over an accurate letter sent out by the Kerry campaign about an idiotic Hair Club For Growth ad being featured.
Interesting discussion over at Crooked Timber regarding this story from the Chronicle of Higher Education (thank you, Cathy, for the subscription, although I haven't actually had the opportunity to read any of.
I don't think most people understand just how colossally the Bush administration has fucked up the North Korea situation. The media story suggests that is has been an intractable problem and that Bush has done neither better nor worse than Clinton did. Fred Kaplan shows how...
This is pretty cool, from Rolling Stone via Political Animal: Joe Biden: I was in the Oval Office the other day, and the president asked me what I would do about resignations..
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.
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 talk about cooperation for a bit. Every time a piece of evidence arises suggesting that officials...
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.
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.