By Jan 19,2010

Coakley or Brown?

I was going to write up a blog post pithily summarizing the myriad gaffes of Martha Coakley and offering up my guess as to who will win, but it seems...

By Jan 19,2010

MLK would've protested against Obama

Katrina Vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, on ABC: If Martin Luther King, Jr., were alive, he would march on this White House because he would say, “Don’t escalate the...

By Jan 17,2010

OK, not all lists are great

So, no sooner do I praise lists than Ben Shapiro writes the single stupidest list I’ve ever seen that fully validates all of the criticisms levied against the practice by...

By Jan 16,2010

But people like lists!

Via Andrew, I saw Mark Athiakis’ riff against lists. A taste: Lists are lazy criticism. The person making the list is rarely inclined (or given the opportunity) to expound at...

By Jan 16,2010

My letter from Bill Clinton

Political fund-raisers are always a great target for blog posts. Most of my political mail is from conservatives, but I still get some liberal envelopes, possibly because of my subscription...