After noting a creepily misogynist passage from the book of the man taking over the Billy Kristol Chair in Applied Bullshit at the New York Times, Brad DeLong offers some alternative suggestions:...there is an awful lot here not to like, and an awfully good reason...
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Social Security is, as we all know, a very popular and very successful program. For a variety of reasons, centrist pundits in general and the Washington Post in particular have.
For some reason, the Atlantic continues to attract love letters to aircraft. I had hoped that Robert Kaplan's ode to the B-2 Spirit would be sufficient embarrassment to the magazine.
Alex has an interesting story:I had an interesting experience with CBS after [the Dan Rather imbroglio], which may bear repeating. Quite suddenly, some time in the early summer of 2005, I was contacted by a CBS Correspondent, regarding the Viktor Bout-to-Iraq issue. We discussed it...
It's not hard to find journalists writing about subjects they know nothing about. Gregg Easterbrook, however, manages to turn ignorance into an art form.
Glenn reminds us of the disgraceful behavior of the New York Times in the wake of the 2001 attempted coup against Hugo Chavez:That was one of the most Orwellian editorials.
Just in case you had some strange compulsion to read the thing, Benen identifies the important part of the Times' lengthy attempt to indulge winger guilt-by-distant-association games with Obama and William Ayers:[T]he two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama...
Ye gods, Wiesman is a hack. It's people like him which make McCain's disgraceful campaign work.
Since it's amazing how persistent the idea that Al Gore was an awful candidate is -- with special focus on his allegedly bad debate performance -- it's worth returning to.
As a follow-up to Paul's post below, I note that among the people classified as "overweight" by the BMI index we can find...George W. Bush. Sure, he may exercise regularly and seems healthy and trim for man his age, but...the BMI has spoken! Let's hope...
As Tim Noah points out, what's particularly strange about the bizarre NYT article claiming that blogging was turning into a job so stress-inducing it could kill you is that the.
There are a couple frustrating elements to Zev Chafets's profile of Mike Huckabee. For example, he completely botches the discussion of the DuMond pardon, disappearing the lunatic anti-conspiracy angle that.