LGM is proud to announce the 2009 nominees for First Annual Mikey Kaus Award For Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence in Contrarianism:Jonah Weiner: Creed may be the greatest American rock band since Limp Bizkit (alas, Nickelback, being Canadian, don't count.) I think you...
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Tracy Lightcap has a good comment in the thread below:I'm not so sure that there are good and bad presidents, just good and bad opportunities.I'm a big fan of Skowronek's.
Loomis has a list.
"A Tea Party Manifesto" reads better if you imagine it being delivered in the voice of Dwight Schrute. 1. A moratorium on bailouts, whether for Wall Street bankers, General Motors, or the irresponsible guy down the street who "bought" too much house. "Failures must be...
My five favorite series finales:M.A.S.H.Star Trek: The Next Generation*NewhartQuantum LeapMagnum P.I.***Penned by Ron Moore**This refers to Limbo, the season 7 finale, and pretends that the misconceived season 8 never happened.BSG.
Obviously, you don't expect much from ew lists, and this one is actually better that the "New Classics" one Glenn references, which featured not only more than its share of.
Michael Tomasky ranks 'em. These sorts of lists don't work, of course, unless your readers are able to respond with pronouncements along the lines of, "I can't believe he put Michele Bachmann ahead of Holy Joe!"So in keeping with the spirit of things, I'm really...
This is more in Rob's and Scott's wheelhouse, but Tim at Walking the Berkshires is compiling a list of the "Top Ten Movie Soliloquies." He embeds Robert Shaw's famous Jaws.
Ari at The Edge of the American West points us to this Ilya Somin post that makes the best possible -- but I think ultimately unpersuasive -- case for Warren.
I concur with Ezra's list. Other strong candidates for me:BillmonJeanne D'Arc of Body and SoulSteve Gilliard (RIP)A White Bear of Is There No Sin In It?My first online editor, Sam Rosenfeld of TAPPEDMeanwhile, speaking of the Mighty Reason Man, I've seen a couple people mention...
Henley and DeLong start the discussion, with dsquared's immortal attempt to show that an MBA might actually be useful after all a justified consensus pick. Like one of Henley's commenters,.