By • Mar 20,2009

A story I will never, ever read

From the front page of Slate: Sad State: How being a governor became the toughest job in America. By Eliot Spitzer. “In fact, it was so hard I had to...

By • Mar 20,2009

Jon Stewart’s Selective Ire

You could hardly be human, American, and a consumer of television media in the loosest sense and have missed last week’s duel between the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart and Mad...

By • Mar 20,2009

Turning Back the Clock

Matt gets it exactly right: A substantial swathe of policy elites, starting with Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke and George Bush and now evidently including Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers...

By • Mar 19,2009

We’re the secret ingredient!

Trailer for a brilliant new movie. Still won’t give me as many nightmares as the original, though. Gobstopper Trailer – watch more funny videos

By • Mar 19,2009

Act first, ask questions later

I don’t really follow this, from Ezra Klein. He links to a Brad Plumer piece on cap and trade proposals leading to massive trade wars (he misleadingly titles the post...

By • Mar 19,2009

Sentences I didn’t finish

“Liberal blogger men are thrilled … ” Katha Pollitt, The Nation (I would posit that no one who views everything through a rigrorous lens of gender victimization is ever worth...