It's funny because it's true.However logical it might be for conservatives to scuttle the Miers nomination to get someone they can be more sure about, I think Matt is basically right: the conservative movement has made it entirely clear that they'll eat anything Bush puts between...
Wow. The Shiite and Kurdish factions seem to have given up on any effort to make the constitutional referendum seem legitimate in Sunni areas. I'm ambivalent. On the one hand,.
I see a couple strategies for defending Bush's cronyism have already emerged. Jonathan Adler tries to suggest that Roberts was so incredibly well-qualified that Bush had nowhere to go but.
Scott (I think; can't find his best of the 90's post) [SL: it's here] and I both consider this one of the 10 best films of the 90's. The Northwest Film Forum in Seattle screened it Friday night, giving me a second viewing to reconsider. I...
The most suprising thing about Kentucky has been the sectarian violence. I am told that they hunt Lexingtonians for sport in Louisville. My students and I were recently drafted for.
Slappy's drowning in his own tears: Showalter removed starters Michael Young, Mark Teixeira and Hank Blalock for pinch-runners in the third inning against the Angels on Sunday. The Texas Rangers.
Interesting; I know several people thought that Bush would pick someone very close to him--which makes sense given the pervasiveness of cronyism within the administration--and I suppose Bush thought Miers was more confirmable than Gonzales and wanted a woman to replace O'Connor, so why not the...
Kevin Drum asks a question asked by many because Hollywood is having an off year financially--why are movies so bad? My answer is that I reject the premise. Not the.
Given the recommendation of several internet luminaries, and since I'm now down to exactly zero shows I feel compelled to watch, I thought I would start watching it regularly this.
I was aware that Michael Crichton was guilty of many aesthetic and political atrocities, most notably 6th-rate novels and screenplays larded with laughably bad science, vicious misogyny, and less-than-prophetic xeonophobia. (His clueless, reactionary politics, of course, wouldn't be an issue if his work was anything but...
An eternal classic in the bottom of the second: "Derek Jeter couldn't get the groundball hit right at him because he had the sun at his back."And the Sox, after.
Ailes explains the events that led to First Amendment Martyr (if you think the purpose of "freedom of the press" is to help the federal government commit felonies to protect.