By • Jan 19,2010

Brown-Coakley: Pre-emptive spin

The polls close in around an hour. Assume Scott Brown wins. The spin from both sides should be pretty simple. GOP — This was a referendum on Obama. Dems —...

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...