A Fortnight of Lessons

By Aug 21,2008

A Fortnight of Lessons

Some sane commentary is finally emerging in the wake of the Georgia crisis, which turns two weeks old tonight. The macho fulminations of neoconservative pundits seem to be dying down...

By Aug 20,2008

Tortured Logic

Apropos of the Sonny-Schwenkler Torture Tussle, I’ll mention briefly the following as non inconsistent positions to take on torture and torture-related issues: (1) Torture banned by treaties to which we...

By Aug 20,2008

Dare to be Stupid

I’m sorry, but of the many compelling (or intriguing, or plausible) arguments for why African-Americans should have their own search engine, this is not one of them: […] a black...

By Aug 20,2008

Salam for Slice

Reihan suggests that either McCain or Obama pick Kimbo Slice for the VP slot. This is a movement I can get behind. Instead of a debate we could have a...

By Aug 20,2008

No libruls on the teevees

Matt says: Phil Donahue got fired from his political talk show simply for being too liberal. To which I say: wait, what? You mean the fact that he was drawing...