To elaborate on a point I made in passing below, I'm frankly puzzled about why Matt has switched sides on the merits of filibustering Alito, which remains the obviously correct option. I think both of the arguments he seems to be making are incorrect: The...
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I thought about coming up with my own questions for the Alito hearings, but to be frank the hearings are unlikely to produce any valuable information, and so we should.
Orrin Hatch: we should vote to confirm Alito because...he's a baseball fan. (I admit that it's his best feature.) But you know who else was a big baseball fan? Harry.
Joe Klein, on the other hand, does do it for a living. Klein, discussing the NSA program, rolls out his usual "let me project my increasingly reactionary politics on the American public so I can pretend the Dems are losing because they disagree with me"...
For some reason, I wasn't terribly enthusiastic about seeing Capote. I sort of thought it was my duty to see it, but it was mostly based on seeing Hoffman, who.
A surprisingly tough NYT editorial about Alito which starts well:Judicial nominations are not always motivated by ideology, but the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito certainly was. President Bush's previous choice.
9:45am: Arrive at Gatwick. Have never suffered as much turbulence in one flight as the flight from Detroit. On the upside, won the aircraft trivia game three times. 10:00am: Deal with snarky, irritating entry agent. We saved your ass in World War II!!!11:00am: Arrive at...
Oh, a rare and welcome thing, an article about people who actually like living in cities and actually value things other than the square footage of the house they can.
Taking the war over The Shape That Hates America to new depths of insanity, John Rawls' idiot son Alec has come up with a sheer masterpiece of wingnuttery. According to.
Leaving soon for conference in Steyning, West Sussex. Blogging may be light, depending on connectivity. Will post pictures accompanied by trenchant observations when possible.
I hate "spoiler alerts" because they detract from our ability to carry out meaningful discussions of movies and television. Nevertheless, I make allowances for this modern age that we live.
It is, indeed, about the ingredients. Stop at Whole Paycheck on the way home after a movie, and one can make even a Friday night pathetically spent at home watching.