Blogging HT to Gawker. Christopher Jordan Dorner, the 33-year-old ex-LAPD officer who allegedly killed a young Los Angeles couple on Sunday in revenge for his termination from the force, is only getting started, according...
Let’s just dispense with something right away, shall we? Dr. Mehmet Oz is a far more accomplished physician than I will ever be. From the recent profile of “America’s doctor” in The New Yorker:...
In the Washington Post, Alexandra Petri pleads with Barnes & Noble not to marginalize itself, with more effectiveness and less of the accidental elitism of a former Classics major than I could muster. (h/t Rod Dreher)
It is clear that there is abundant interest to support going forward with League-fest 2013 in Chicago on June 7-9 this year. As a result, it is about time for me to block some...
So Cantor gave his aforementioned big speech yesterday, the one about turning the GOP into an expansively inclusive party of multiple ethnicities and income brackets, and MSNBC was there to tell the tale. Their description is curious, however,...
If only because these two bags of hot air interacting with one another is sure to raise the temperature by a few degrees. Is it possible for both of them to lose? Pretty please?
Most of the time despite my Sinoskepticism I’m sanguine about the Middle Kingdom’s rise. I’m thrilled that hundreds of millions of Chinese are now living substantially better lives. The worst of Mao’s excesses lie...
That is the question raised in the latest Econtalk podcast, wherein Russ Roberts interviews Constitutional law professor Louis Michael Siedman. Siedman argues that one of the central principles of US government, that the Constitution is the supreme law of...
“BHL – We’re Louder Than You” black logo hand-screened by Erica @Dirtbag Couture, on athletic grey American Apparel 50/50 shirts, so they’re soft and comfortable and high quality. We have girl cut sizes and...
Liz Mair is a political consultant that has worked for various Republican campaigns such as John McCain’s 2008 presidential run. She also a great blogger and I wished she blogged more. Her latest post is about what’s wrong with the GOP.
Ron Fournier of National Journal is following Eric Cantor around as the House Majority Leader terrifies DC’s infants (“Eric Cantor grabs a plastic dinosaur from the pile of toys in front of 1-year-old Mekhi Scott, taps...
White snow covers white sand in the Surf Lodge parking lot, Montauk NY
First of all, let me say upfront how happy I am for both Dykes’ child hostage and the boy’s family, that the boy appears to be safe and unharmed. As a parent, news stories...
…the strict constructionists of the state legislature have been found to be violating the constitution’s education provision.
I feel like I shouldn’t laugh, because this remains a good idea, despite being extremely belated; but a New York Times report has found that following Sharon Angle, Christine O’Donnell, Richard Mourdock, and Todd Akin, some GOP heavies...
Via RJ Stoller, an absolutely riveting description of a series on online PR decisions made by AppleBees,which Stoller rightfully describes as “a slow-motion train wreck from which you cannot tear away your eyes.”
Last month the Texas Freedom Network (TFN) published a report on the effects of Texas’s House Bill 1287. Like most states, Texas allows its public schools to teach the cultural history of the Bible,...
How does it come to be that the bodily remains of a former king of England were found buried under a municipal parking lot?
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Seems like a plausible explanation.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25They don't have a coherent plan. Full Stop. There are people focused on the tax cut. There are peopl… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25The entire plan, such as it seems to be a coherent plan at all, is to let Trump do whatever he feels… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Heheheh 20 million dollars to lose by 9 points, couldn't happen to a nicer plutocrat.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25I'm not sure that she has a whole lot in common with the other speakers that have been shut down ove…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Isn't that what a blacklist is? Now that the word is out on Dr. Liu, it'd take a pretty brave outfit… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25I'm not sure that it's a blacklist as such. It's just another name on the pile.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25This is on top of the fact the entire article is trying to paint 'Hamas revised the numbers down' as…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25It's not "my" article, but it does lay out what actually happened and what the given reasons were. I…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25I think it'll eventually revert to a master and apprentice kind of model where the senior person get…
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