Since the Newtown killings last December, at least 9900 Americans have died from guns. The total mass political movement from this has been the recall of two Colorado legislators who voted for gun-control legislation. Update [PC]: The 9,900 figure is, as Slate notes, a massive underestimate,...
The post by the esteemed Mr. Bogg Rob references below finds a couple more classics of the "why do rational progressives support the most progressive candidates possible rather than...something" genre.
Whiskey Fire is creeping up on its 4 millionth hit. It couldn't happen to a nicer ( or more funny, awesome) blog. It's where I got my start, before I SOLD.
--This is brogressivism in a nutshell. (It's also mind-bogglingly stupid. The charge of tribalism makes me want to headdesk forever and ever.) So many issues to be concerned about...just not issues that affect women's lives. I love the idea that there are good (worthy) issues and...
University of Illinois professor Nicholas Burbules' anti-faculty union arguments are laughable. They are laughable precisely because he ignores the reality of 21st century administration-faculty relationships and what administrations are trying.
Evidently, a pig in 1942 was extra, well, piggish and ate too much. So its owner named it Hitler. And painted the name on it.
I've long thought Adbusters brought out the worst in the left--lazy, self-congratulatory, conspiratorial, lacking a critique of power, relying on clever images rather than articulating an interesting politics. Basically, a love of Adbusters was probably a sign I didn't need to take you very seriously. I'm...
Via Mr. Bogg, Conor Friedersdorf is very concerned about the future of the Democratic Party. During President George W. Bush's tenure, most Republicans felt that criticizing him would just help.
R.I.P. A commenter mentioned this, and like him I had no idea: Producers of “The Simpsons” announced on Saturday that the Edna Krabappel (pronounced crah-BOP-ull) character, who had found happiness.
I'm not claiming from my sheltered youth to have discovered Lou Reed through the Velvet Underground. Rather, I heard the minimalist guitar crunch and acerbic wit of New York in a record store, asked the clerk what it was, and played the (yes) cassette obsessively for...
There's not going to be a grand bargain, and this is very good thing.
From the Lowry-Ponnuru summation of the debt ceiling/shutdown fight: It is a politics of perpetual intra-Republican denunciation. It focuses its fire on other conservatives as much as on liberals. It.