Walter ShapiroKirn, guest-blogging Chez Sully, has a great post about the use of the phrase "the tipping point" as a contemporary update of the "domino effect," with roughly the same empirical validity. I've noted that Jon Chait--an excellent thinker when not writing about Iraq or...
Author: Scott Lemieux
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.
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 made the old connection between salaries and high prices to a reporter from the Fitchburg...
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.
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 a secondary item. Of course, the ressentiment frame doesn't really fit in this case anyway,...
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.
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 intelligence agencies to exculpate the President over his lies about WMD, (poor Bush, duped by...
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.
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.