Grand New Party, cont.

By Jul 03,2008

Grand New Party, cont.

After finishing Ross and Reihan’s book, I was struck by the notion that they want to change the Republican party less than American society: restructuring farming; reimagining education; rebuilding (and...

By Jul 03,2008

Right on Russia

Stephen Cohen has an excellent, urgent column in the IHT on the topic of McCain and Obama’s totally inadequate and positively harmful Russia policies. I have nothing to add for...

By Jul 03,2008

Screwing the SCOTUS Pooch

Here’s a horrible idea: Justice Kennedy, for example, could simply write, “I agree with many of the arguments by four of my colleagues that statute X is unconstitutional, but I...

By Jul 03,2008

Unbreakable

That’s liberal/progressive blogger Brian Beutler, apparently, who had his spleen vented for him in the unsatisfying sense by some contemptible little bastard on the wrong side of Adams Morgan. I...

By Jul 02,2008

"There's nothing wrong with me."

Yeah there is, chief. Check out this audio file over at Film Drunk. It’s like a real life version of the series of messages that Mikey leaves in Swingers…a/k/a, the...

By Jul 02,2008

Lay off Wall*E, jerks

I have to say: I don’t understand the conservative reaction against Wall*E. The pro-environment message may not be subtle (I mean, the Earth is literally covered under garbage), but it’s...