I've got no expectations one way or another on Thomas Frank's new book, What's the Matter With Kansas? It may be a rather vulgar Marxist oversimplification, or it may shed some light on the cultural and political transformation of Kansas, and the midwest generally in the last...
Saturday's NYT op-eds make a interesting pairing. First, we have the always insightful and never insufferable David Brooks. His whinefest today is about how Kerry seems to be embracing what is.
****: A Walk in the Clouds *** 1/2: Godfather Part III, Absolute Power ***: Godfather Part II, Tomb Raider II, Cop and a Half *: Blue Velvet Amazing, isn't it? I'm inclined to think The Godfather Part II.
The attempts to parse the comments of Administration officials to prove that they didn't technically lie are pointless, because of course the chief basis of the Administration's case was the conflation of Iraq with the "war on terra." Whatever specific claims were made, the strategy was...
It's not exactly news that Garfield is a commercial and critical bomb (and I thought Bill Murray was slumming when he did that elephant thing!) Apparently the film rights to Hi and.
A magnificent post by Belle Waring at Crooked Timber mocking the "ticking time bomb" scenario constantly used by torture/Bush Administration apologists. To state the obvious, 1)of course torture is morally.
With respect to my recent post on conservative vanity candidate Ralph Nader, some response to the many intelligent comments are in order. First, fine commentary from The Poor Man and Nathan Newman. In response to Erik's reasonable comments about the Democrats' lack of vision, he has a point to...
On Hardball last night, political grandstander, liberal media agitator and suspected socialist John Lehman suggested that part of the problem with our domestic air response was due to a "jihad against defense.
I've seen more expressions of anti-semitism from the European left than I would ideally like to see. Of course, I'd ideally like to see none, so that's not saying much..
It's difficult to find an issue so clear-cut that The Nation and eventheliberal New Republic agree, but both have great reviews of Sam Huntington's new book, People Who Aren't White Christians Will Destroy America. My first temptation is to say that Huntington's argument is un-American, but that's not quite correct. After...
Instapundit and Andrew Sullivan both think that Muqtada Al-Sadr's retreat and expressions of approval for the new government are a victory for the administration. That is certainly a point of view..
Cruising the blogosphere, checking out the reaction to the 9/11 report. . . Tacitus has a measured response. He acknowledges that Dick Cheney is a damned liar, but notes that.