If there is one thing I've gotten sick of in the last four years, it's having to pick my jaw up off the floor every so often, after it fall there in response to my lack of ability to prepare myself for the level of incompetence...
The boys on the right have to stop every other day and gush about Arthur Chrenkoff. Chrenkoff, you see, tells the good news about Iraq. Moreover, he tells it in.
Still glad that Andy's back: Paris never wanted to be involved, but the notion that even a chief appeaser of Islamist terror can escape its fury is getting less and.
Andy's back, and he's pissed. The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans. This is an almost seventeenth century piece of public sectarianism and anti-Catholic bigotry. But it's now the Republican mainstream. I think it's close to unarguable that a Bush second term,...
The letter Economist editor Clive Crook wrote to Brad DeLong makes use of a ploy that, while a familiar tactic of wingnut hacks, is particularly dismaying coming from an intelligent conservative: He.
Don't have much to say yet about the investigation into Larry Franklin for sending secrets to Israel. If you're interested, check out Juan Cole, who has an extensive analysis, and this.
Lindsay Beyerstein draws our attention to a truly dismaying attempt to Johnny Cash as a symbol for Republican politics. Appalling. I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who...
The decline in affirmative action over the last several years should be a major cause for concern for anyone interested in social justice. We often hear from rightwingers how affirmative.
I use this space to vent about the various pathologies of the New York Times pretty regularly, but I'll say this for that particular: in the post-Janet "Titanic is the movie.
When I was in Montreal on Wednesday, two justices were appointed to the Canadian Supreme Court. Media coverage has focused on the fact that 1)the Canadian court now has an apparently unprecedented gender near balance, with 4 of the 9 justices being women, and 2)both justices have...
In response to a request for more baseball blogging. . . Ichiro Suzuki became the first player to get 200 hits in each of his first four major league seasons.
In a coup for the blogosphere, fafblog obtains a rare interview with the President.