Hilzoy identifies the crucial problem with Lieberman, and identifies another classic example of Holy Joe putting himself above the party that I had forgotten:Prizing genuine pragmatism, reasonableness, and statesmanship is a good thing. Prizing your reputation as a pragmatic, reasonable, statesmanlike politician is something else...
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Chessboxing:Two competitors face each other in 11 alternating rounds, six of chess, five of boxing. A bout begins with chess, which is played on a board placed directly in the.
Yeah, I'm pretty much with Neil; cheering for a Green candidate to sabotage Cantwell is one of the dumbest things to come down the pike since... oh, well, since some.
In Washington D.C. now, for the first time in my life. Some people seem shocked to find that one could get a Ph.D. in political science without stepping foot in D.C., but these people are under the grave misapprehension that political science has anything to...
I've wondered about this, too. In Seven Ages of Paris, Alistair Horne suggested that Baron Hausmann did a grave aesthetic disservice to Paris in the 1850s. But, as Mr. Trend.
Aspazia: "Next time you meet a "pro-choice" Republican, just remember, they might care about their own choice, but they could give a rat's ass about yours." Indeed, and this goes.
...but someone asked and I suppose it involves the minor "beat" I've carved out for myself, so I should say something.The whole DKos/Jerome Armstrong brouhaha -- the details of which I have studiously tried to avoid because I can gaze at my own navel without...
Dr. Strangelove: Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?Ambassador de Sadesky: It was.
Friday Cat Blogging... Nelson
Drilling Firm Seeks Favor as ExpatriateThe language in the House measure seems innocuous enough. Tucked into the Coast Guard budget bill, it says merely that Section 608 ( c ) (1) "is amended by striking the second sentence."But what that language would do is allow...
Apparently she's in a lot of trouble. And while officially I still maintain that voting for a third party is stupid given the high stakes involved, and even though I.
Many people I spoke to about seeing the Lourve pretty much said that it wasn't terribly exciting. I guess it's sort of like Citizen Kane; once a reputation reaches a.