My own nominees for this prestigious competition: Glenn Reynolds for "Ward Churchill is the 'face of the left!'" "Ivan Tribble" for "people with lives, different aesthetic preferences, or tattoos need not apply, and I'll just move the goalposts so that we can forget I said...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Matt is, of course, right: the fact that college sports have become a commercial machine from which athletes, and athletes alone, are not permitted to profit, is a scandal. In.
In response to recent attempts to pretend that the Republican Party is like a European Christian Democratic Party, providing care to new mothers to go along with cultural conservatism, Sharon.
More evidence about Alito's obvious desire to overturn or gut Roe, and more importantly further evidence (granting that this shouldn't be necessary) that vague, banal claims about stare decisis at his confirmation hearings will mean less than nothing.
Shorter InstaWife: Movies like Fahrenheit 9/11 are just simple, boring propaganda nobody wants to see, which is why the releasing studio took such a bath, earning only $222 million on.
Elton Beard says a lot of what I was going to say about Garance Franke-Ruta's recent article about women who get multiple abortions. But there's a particular type of argument.
I suppose pointing this out at this late date is as futile as complaining when people misuse "begging the question," but apparently Roger Simon's deployment of concepts he doesn't understand doesn't stop with politics:Are we in the Age of the Actor? For several decades the...
I finally remembered to take the much-discussed Garance Franke-Ruta article about repeat abortions to the gym yesterday, so I'll have more about that later today. But as a preview, interested.
...from Emily Bazelon:What should matter more to the senators who will soon decide whether Alito will sit on the Supreme Court is that his record as an appeals court judge.
Particularly given that I bought the really good scallops at Whole Paycheck it's rather more expensive than my budget can really justify for home cookin', but that is some tasty shit.In other Dreary Saturday Night news flipping over after HNIC (seeing Crosby, who justifies the...
Shakes Sis and Media Girl have excellent posts about a very disturbing case. I don't know enough about the evidence to speak definitively about the decision of the prosecution not.
Is shooting a unarmed teenager who stole 10 bucks in the back of the head a reasonable "seizure" under the Fourth Amendment? I think you know how Strip Search Sammy.