Rob sez (in comments, in my response to the claim that the 1st season of Deadwood, while plainly inferior to The Sopranos, seems better to me than Six Feet Under):I could also see the argument that second season Deadwood is better than 6FU, but first...
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Via Ezra, Jonah Goldberg asks why liberal bloggers aren't reviewing The Party of Death, the book we're assured is serious and non-partisan despite the fact that the elements of "death".
In advance of my post about the 25-greatest-novels thing, Amanda has a terrific post about Aesthetic Stalinism (left and right.) I think there are two points that are worth keeping.
Shorter Marshall Whittman: Security threats permanently require the President to lie and break the law, and anyone who disagrees is paranoid....indeed. The Bespectacled Scooter does not understand why Democratic centrists think it's a good idea to make Whittman, who makes Mickey Kaus look like Russ...
Shorter Glenn Reynolds: If you pretend that "the federal income tax" comprises all taxation and examine payments in total dollars rather than percentages of income, then my claim about Bush.
Interesting WSJ article about Luttig's resignation, which seems vaguely consistent with Julia's "he was more principled reactionary than Republican hack" (unlike, say, the conservatives on the Supreme Court) theory:Judge Luttig,.
With respect to the NSA program Rob discusses below, it is almost certainly constitutional according to Supreme Court precedent (an atrocious decision--Stevens' decision to join will not be remembered as one of his finest hours--but nonetheless clearly controlling), but almost certainly violates federal statutes. Which,...
Michael Luttig, the arch-conservative 4CA judge whose exasperation with the Bush administration's transparent attempts to avoid judicial review may have cost him a Supreme Court nomination, has resigned. It's not.
My answer to MMF's question, alas, is that I think it's highly unlikely that the Dems will take back the House in 2006, even if the polls continue to be.
Reading about the recent scandal in which HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson refused contracts to firms for partisan reasons, I was wondering--in addition to the obvious violations of sound government and probable violation of federal regulations--if the decision might run afoul of the Supreme Court's patronage...
Apropos of the Pixies reunion tour that I managed to miss out on at both ends, a friend this weekend noted how glad she was that the tour was not.
Keith Hernandez on Phillie hurler Brett Myers' tendency to get rattled on the mound: "He's not Warren Zevon's Excitable Boy, but..."The annoying thing about Hernandez's recent sexist comments is that.