William Saletan's latest piece comparing the "war on smoking" to an upcoming "war on obesity" rests on two clearly erroneous underlying premises, one of them fatal. The somewhat less important one is the uncritical relating of the claim of "federal officials" that "would soon surpass...
Author: Scott Lemieux
I come home from a movie and turn on Al-Yankeezera to see what the final score was. Bottom 9th, 1-2 pitch to Torri Hunter, Twins down a run, runners on.
It's nice to see King Kaufman tackle a particularly stupid element of sports labor-bashing, the idea that increasing ticket prices are due to high salaries:A Sox fan named Don Watts.
I think it's correct to say that it's frequently "a background assumption of the conversation -- so much so that neither participant questions it -- that women have the ability to plan how many children they will have. No one even asks how it is...
One strange thing about Stanley Fish's defense of an originalism based on discovering the intentions of the author is that most defenders of originalism see the obvious fallacy involved. In.
Odd; maybe it's that I had a good news/company/food kinda day, but I'm actually inclined to celebrate the 2005-6 Northwest Division champions while noting the admittedly glorious Canucks elimination as.
William Kristol--who I would say was "phoning it in" except that punching the numbers on the phone requires effort; it's more like that Alec Baldwin "how to be a handsome actor" sketch where you just pick up the phone and start talking, or in this...
The problem with the wingnut math put forward by the likes of Tinsley is that between running the IRS, foreign aid, grants to Robert Mapplethorpe and buying Cadillacs for welfare.
Treason in Defense of Slavery Yankee and Captain Ed edition. (See also Mahablog.) This reminds me of one of my favorite techniques of warblogger hackery--use conflicts between the administration and.
Like Matt, I can't recommend this article highly enough. The defense of soaring executive pay in comparison with virtually stagnant wages otherwise involves claims that this is merely the rational outcome of the free market. The argument fails because there's no "free market" operating here,...
In comments to the Brooks thread below, my colleague reminds us of the very pinnacle of Boboian hackery: his defense of Bush's casually ambitious scheme to utterly transform Iraqi state.
I can't believe I missed it before, but the Colbert interview of Harvey C. Mansfield is indeed a classic. (Click on "Colbert Report videos" at the bottom of the page.