Thomas Geoghegan had an interesting op-ed in The New York Times yesterday about the legality of Senate appointments by governors, like what’s going on with…
Michael Hirschorn has a ridiculous article on the future of The New York Times in The Atlantic. He starts out the piece saying that the…
There is so very much wrong with Roland Burris’s effort to get a Senate seat, the latest of which is visible in this press conference:…
Lately, still-Vice-President Dick Cheney has been doing a number of interviews, sharing his rationale for why the executive should not have to answer to anyone,…
CTA Tattler notes that the new Secretary of Transportation, Ray Lahood, has connections to Caterpillar, “one of the biggest highway project lobbies.” Like me, Tattler…
Levi Johnston, America’s number one non-condom wearing fool, may soon see his mother behind bars. She was arrested on six felony counts of msconduct concerning…
These days it really is out with the old and in with the new: soon Bush is gone, pretty much everyone is demanding Blagojevich resign,…
Adam Serwer writes that the Obama girls will be missing out on something crucial by moving to Sidwell:
Even though I knew that the Obamas…
If you’re trying to pick which philosophers to study, watch this:
(Via Slog.)
Ezra points to a suggestions page for what the Office of Urban Policy should do. It’s pretty interesting to see which projects people favor more…
James Surowiecki has an interesting column in this week’s issue of The New Yorker which says, among other things, that one of the fatal fault…
World of Warcraft has recently begun offering sex changes for players’ characters, which got Ta-Nehisi Coates thinking:
The other day I was doing some PvP…
Every once in a while my former boss, Ben Greenman, writes lyrics to musicals based on current events. I give you Blagojevich! The Musical, his…
This is not Sam Zell’s week. Via Chicagoist:
What a week for Sam Zell. First, his company filed for bankruptcy on Monday. Then on Tuesday,…
Jamelle points to an especially grim post by Daniel Larison at Eunomia who denounces Jon Meacham’s views on homosexuality in very clear language:
This is…
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