David Neiwert points us to the cover story of Pat Buchanan's The American Conservative: a love-in between the man himself and self-appointed spokesman for pure progressive bodily fluids Ralph Nader. My first reaction is to say that he's been a conservative lickspittle for so long he's just skipping the middleman,...
In a rare case of me being with the winning team, the winner of THE VICIOUS INSTAPUNDIT BLOGROLL CONTEST at MaxSpeak has been announced, and the winner is: InstaPundit. Let us first.
Warning: The following is long, rambling, inconclusive and pointless. Read at your own risk. Most of you have probably figured out that Rob is the Guns and Scott is the.
This quote from Tacitus is precious, even if I am appalled by it: Tacitus can't admit he was wrong even in the face of facts! Which is to say, because I recognize that occupation policy has been increasingly bad and counterprodutive, I was wrong to support the war,...
Juan Cole points out what should be obvious to everyone; that Iran is seeking, and is likely to acquire, a great deal of influence in the new Iraq. Some people like.
About the merits of Elk Grove v. Nedow, I would say briefly that 1)the standing analysis that allowed the Court to duck the issue isn't very convincing, but was probably politically.
Matt Yglesias, Kevin Drum, and Jesse Taylor have talked this to death. . . Here in Seattle, we have two major newspapers. The P-I is a middle of the road moderate newspaper, owned by the Hearst Corporation. The Seattle Times is a right-wing rag, owned by a local...
I saw Supersize Me, a very fine movie, last week. One of the film's most-praised segments involves an interview with a Reason editor (Jacob Sullum, I think) wondering when it would be socially acceptable.
Not much time to post. A few thoughts from Colorado. 1) Running and drinking cheap red wine, when done excessively, can cause significant problems. They cause those problems much, much.
Digby asks: "Can somebody explain to me why everyone is assuming that Bush is going to be defeated in the Supreme Court on the Guantanamo and Padilla cases?" And, granted, predicting how O'Connor will vote in a given case is a fool's game. The best reason for...
Kevin Drum is tentavively, sort of predicting that maybe the Dems might take back the house. Then he has the audacity to say "you heard it here first." Obviously, he's delinquent in.
Let's be frank, the Reagan worship is getting annoying. I know it'll run its course eventually, and I have to be patient. Last night I was at the gym, and.