So, I took this test; in order of finish, here are my results:Bill RichardsonMike GravelBarack ObamaDennis KucinichHillary ClintonChris DoddRon PaulJoe BidenJohn EdwardsMike HuckabeeSam BrownbackJohn McCainTom TancredoRudy GiulianiMitt RomneyFred ThompsonPredictably, there was a substantial gap between Edwards and Huckabee. I'm kind of surprised Edwards was the lowest...
I've expressed my frustration before (in posts I can't seem to find right now) that none of the serious Dem. presidential candidates (apologies to Kucinich and Gravel) appear willing to.
I shouldn't be surprised. Some milblogger compiles a list of quotations from "largely clueless" folks "living in ivory towers" who mocked the wingnut flash mob that appeared around the Beauchamp.
Texas is about to execute someone for a murder he did not commit and was only peripherally involved with. During every discussion of the death penalty around here, at least one commenter will recount an anecdote of an especially horrible crime committed by someone who was...
Jane and BT note Dr. Helen's bizarre claims in her Pajamas Media advice column that "manliness" means that you should "get The Dangerous Book for Boys [wow, Insta or Mrs..
OK, Chris Matthews is is a creepy sexual harasser. And his show contains virtually no useful content (well, unless Ezra is on.) But on the other hand, he has to.
It should hardly surprise anyone to learn that the Foreign Affairs piece "authored" by Giuliani is in fact an enormous load of crap, a cut-and-paste job that blends the most discredited neo-conservative banalities with the mindless filler of the average high school commencement speech. Here are...
Phil Rizutto has passed away; in an ironic twist of sabermetric fate, cutting edge defensive statistics suggested that his election to the HOF wasn't the pressure-politics travesty it always seemed.
No matter what else happens in this world, it's oddly reassuring to know that you can always count on Fred Barnes to be the most abject administration lickspittle imaginable. (In.
The Yazidi are a small sect of Kurdish speakers whose religion predates Islam and Christianity. Their holiest city is Mosul. Adherents, who number less than a million (and probably considerably less than half a million) are concentrated in Iraq. The Yazidi welcomed the US invasion, and...
What's worse: Camille Paglia's ideas, or her prose?Bonus question: what exactly is Salon thinking by paying her to write for them in 2007?
Cara at the Curvature has an interesting post up about women who kill their newborn infants or who allow them to die from neglect. Neonaticide, of course, is nothing new..