Matt Bai. The problem with bad analogies and meaningless catchphrases is that they can conceal the fact--apparently even from the author--that the underlying arguments are just utterly illogical on their face. To the extent that the workforce is becoming more insecure and workers have fewer...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Shakes notes the latest emerging talking point, which will be to say that the Democrats approved of Bush's illegal searches, so nobody can complain. Like Shakes, I'm pretty dubious about.
Billmon on why the "Trust him! He's the President!" approach to evaluating the constitutionality of government actions now favored by conservertarians may be suboptimal.
It is, of course, not surprising to see the bullshit-libertarian blogosphere taking a dive for Bush's illegal searches (although some principled conservatives and actual libertarians are clear about what's going on.) The ultimate example has to be Jeff Goldstein, who argues that the warrantless searches...
So the state of Georgia passed an unconstitutional law forcing people to show an ID card purchased from the state in order to vote. Lest there be any question about.
There is the bad "Hollywood's revenue is declining because..." argument, perfected by Michael Medved. The argument is that Hollywood is going broke because actors were too active in the 2004.
Shorter Assrocket, Michelle Malkin, and Confederate Yankee: The real scandal about the President conducting warrantless searches of American citizens is that someone found out about it.To state the obvious, this policy should be indefensible to anybody but the most egregious Bush fluffers. The national security...
Being both a pretentious wanker and a Montreal chauvinist, I loves me some of the Arcade Fire, although I have occasionally expressed reservations about lyrics that can be pretentious even.
Amanda and iocaste save me the trouble of pestering people to excerpt yet another WSJ article, as they discuss today's cover story about hymen reconstruction, starting with an especially creepy.
It was only a matter of time before Jason Apuzzo, the Lenny Kravitz of right-wing Stalinist aesthetics, weighed in on Brokeback Mountain. And he doesn't disappoint; as TBogg notes, he innovatively combines the "I'm sure this movie is overpraised because the cowboys are gay, although...
Nominations for the 2005 Koufax Awards are up--make sure to send in your favorites. Pretty much every blog on the left (as well as, of course, many that aren't) should.
That's more like it.