In yet more evidence that the right is doing a great job "muzzling its idiots", I note that the Klan's favorite junk scientist has been given three hours of softballs on C-SPAN this afternoon. It is a remarkable look at all the pathologies of the crackpot right:...
Author: Scott Lemieux
[Warning: Million Dollar Baby spoilers below. If it was as good as its adherents claim that wouldn't matter, but it's not, so you may want to skip this post if you plan.
The Poor Man gives us the Roll Call for the Democrats who voted for torture and against any semblance of the rule of law by voting to confirm Alberto Gonzalez: Landrieu.
The Koufax Award nominees for funniest post, always a treasure trove, are up. How they winnowed the Fafblog! and Poor Man posts down to only a few, I have no idea. But I was particularly pleased to be reminded of this Belle Waring post about Reason's 35th Anniversary...
I have been meaning to comment for a while on this very strange Slate article. Ezra raises the most salient objection: it's absolutely crazy to think that the Republicans, in.
The story that German welfare officials were intended to compel women to accept jobs in brothels at the risk of having their welfare payments discontinued has been discredited. (It is.
Classic Tomorrow.
One of the difficulties any rational person has with Gregg Easterbrook's review of Jared Diamond is that he is simply speaking a different, wingnuttier dialect of the English language. Once.
I know it's difficult to believe, but the Eatserhackery referenced below is conceivably only the second-stupidest thing featured in today's New York Times.
To be candid, lacking expertise on matters of either fashion or tact as I do I'm basically indifferent about Dick Cheney's Eddie Bauer Auschwitz outfit. Nonetheless, Lindsay Beyerstein's take on the matter is clearly superior to all contenders, because it uses the word "toque." Now, if...
This is on Book TV right now. Bobo, the Derb, and Christina Hoff Summers discuss I Am Gene Simmons. And it's as bad as it sounds. Bobo, of course, uses this to.
Max Sawicky and Oliver Willis find hate-filled reactionary academic Glenn Reynolds making an argument that would have to accrue several levels of plausibility and empirical support to rise to the level.