Lindsay Beyerstein draws our attention to a truly dismaying attempt to Johnny Cash as a symbol for Republican politics. Appalling. I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who...
The decline in affirmative action over the last several years should be a major cause for concern for anyone interested in social justice. We often hear from rightwingers how affirmative.
I use this space to vent about the various pathologies of the New York Times pretty regularly, but I'll say this for that particular: in the post-Janet "Titanic is the movie.
When I was in Montreal on Wednesday, two justices were appointed to the Canadian Supreme Court. Media coverage has focused on the fact that 1)the Canadian court now has an apparently unprecedented gender near balance, with 4 of the 9 justices being women, and 2)both justices have...
In response to a request for more baseball blogging. . . Ichiro Suzuki became the first player to get 200 hits in each of his first four major league seasons.
In a coup for the blogosphere, fafblog obtains a rare interview with the President.
Once again, Muqtada Al-Sadr challenges the Occupation, and once again the confrontation ends with him still breathing. This is a terribly conceived war, and I never really held out much hope for its long-term success. Moreover, I'm not in the habit of calling for massive retaliation...
Digby, channelled by Ezra Klein, has it quite right: Imagine if the swiftees had come out with this and the public hadn't been given the full star spangled banner routine with.
I'm too lazy to find the link, but a little while ago, Matt Yglesias posted something about how he preferred Fox News to CNN, as it had more real actual.
Josh Marshall is right: The Kerry campaign can and should be all over Bush's sudden allergy to 527's. And it should be mockery. Look, as stupid as the 'flip-flop' stuff is, it can be effective. The press isn't as pro-Bush as they used to be, but...
I'm in partial agreement with Dana Stevens on the Kerry Daily Show appearance two nights ago. Stewart was pitching not just softballs but marshmallows. Puffy interview marshmallows with rainbow sprinkles on.
A broken clock is right twice a day, and the GOP talking point that Kerry isn't running much on his actual governing record (not that Bush is, either) has some.