Shorter Gregg Easterbrook: "Having finally accepted the truth of global warming after denying it for many years, I don't understand why Al Gore would make a film explaining the science to a general audience who has long been falsely told that the evidence was highly...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Has anyone ever noticed that food poisoning really sucks? Sooo cold....
As long-time readers will know, I'm an opponent of the death penalty, but a fairly tepid one. While I don't think it ultimately accomplishes anything, I also think that as.
Since this web log hasn't had a post on Caitlin "why, oh why, do people criticize the crackpot arguments I make in public rather than the sensible opinions I express in private" Flanagan in at least 36 hours, I thought I would fill you in...
It's not just Al Gore; another politician who Ezra has convinced me to see the virtues of is Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius. And here's yet another reason to get on.
Like Ezra and Shakes, I hope that Al Gore will run in '08, and would, at a minimum, strongly lean toward supporting him in the primaries. Neil tries to throw.
A.O. Scott's review of the The Da Vinci Crap ("Ron Howard's adaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling primer on how not to write an English sentence") is a goldmine for lovers of snark. Before reading it, though, I had forgotten about a particularly odious part of...
This is encouraging:As of Friday, Cook rates 75 seats as potentially competitive, of which the GOP must defend 55 (or 73 percent, up from 68 percent the previous week). Among.
The problem with trading an outstanding young pitcher for an injury-prone mediocrity and a good innings-eater for an arsonist reliever is that you end up with such unplanned special events.
And by the title, I don't just mean our Round 2 prediction record (when you're right 0% of the time, you're wrong 100% of the time! Although that's a little misleading, because Michael himself went 1 for 4; our division of labor made things look...
[Picture via LGF watch.]One of the strategies that we're going to see more from cultural reactionaries is to misleadingly cite "religious freedom" in asking for broad exemptions to civil rights.
Two related questions: Are sportswriters still bitching and moaning about LeBron James having the temerity to sign a professional contract out of high school? Are they still planning to complain.