Kevin Drum with an excellent post on Oil. Upshot: Prices are going up. Fluctuations aside, they're not going back down. Depending on who you ask, production has peaked in the last few years, or will peak in the next few years. The ratio between OPEC's production and...
Now that's a game. Why this country prefers the dreary postseason of the NBA is beyond me. I'm also grateful to Sports Illustrated for confidently declaring that a Tampa Bay victory.
Not entirely, but it looks like the Army presence there will be sharply reduced. Frankly, this is a bit overdue. There's no real compelling need to keep even skeletal forces in.
Matt Duss noted some creepy White House rhetoric.
Chalk it up to incompetence; I was so very sad that we couldn't get tickets to the showing of Zhang Yimou's "Hero" at SIFF. Then I read the synopsis, discover.
What's the deal with the Tenet resignation? I don't know. Via Kevin Drum, Mark Kleinman has an interesting theory. I'd certainly like to believe that story, although it's probably too good.
I should make clear that I don't consider those who gamble on political events to have any special insights, as dsquared at crooked timber has demonstrated. In general the numbers in the Iowa markets andtradesports are at best a distillation of conventional wisdom. For fun, let's...
Everyone's all over poll numbers for the Presidential election, and everyone's watching the Senate pretty closely as well. (Speaking of which, there is a nice and very flattering profile of Barak Obama.
The ongoing Canadian election is fascinating from a political junkies standpoint, as it seems as if the reborn Conservative party could capture a plurality government, and it is unlikely that.
Via the incomparable Bob Somerby, this gem from Boston Globe typist Nina Easton on The Tweety Matthews Show ("complacent millionaire pundit values on a cable-access budget!"): EASTON: There is--there's no doubt that that's a piece of John Kerry. There's a piece of John Kerry that wants to please audiences,...
Media Matters takes apart Stephen F. Hayes argument that Bin Laden and Hussein had an operational relationship between 1990 and 2003. This one requires just a smidgeon of common sense..
The Democrats are +1 in the House, with Stephanie Herseth having won. Good news--if there's anything better than a Democratic Congressperson, it's a hot Democratic Congressperson. Picking up a seat in.