Well Said Digby’s got it right: Because we have hit the wall, folks. The Nader vote should have been a clue — not that we need to move left, but that we’d gone as far to the right as we could. Any further and we lose the base, either to a third party or apathy. […]
Tort Reform and Tradeoffs [warning: long post] As I was reading Dwight Meredith’s latest interesting discussion of tort reform, lead poisoning and lead-based paint came to mind. I was trying to picture the reaction that courts in the 1960s would have had to hypothetical plaintiffs alleging that, “the paint in our house is causing our […]
Run, Don’t Walk Over to South Knox Bubba, to check out his illustration of Pres. Bush’s concept of the separation of powers. AB
Twenty Greatest John Hawkins is making lists again, this time of “The Greatest Figures Of The 20th Century”. Unlike the last list, this one is not limited to Americans. Once again, there will be a Liberal list and a Conservative list. I didn’t have time to put much thought into this, but off the top […]
Congratulations Today, I’m going to a friend’s wedding. Weddings are always special, but this one is unusual because until Thursday, I didn’t know it would be happening today. In fact, because he’s been serving in Iraq and Kuwait for most of the last eight months, even he didn’t know until recently when his wedding would […]
Great Line of The Day “All righty, then. Nobody shake Antarctica before the Russians pop it open, OK?” Charles Kuffner explains why we should not shake Antarctica. AB
How Many Angels Can Dance on A Pinhead? Who knows? Not me. But roughly 600 bloggers can be fair and balanced on the same day. That’s at least 599 more blogs than cable news networks that can do that. Nice job with the list, Blah 3. AB
More Flashback Fun with Fox’s Star Commentator From CNN: But it’s apparently not the first time O’Reilly has used the term to describe illegal immigrants from Mexico. According to a report in the Jan. 5, 2003 edition of The Morning Call of Allentown, Penn., O’Reilly criticized the Immigration and Naturalization Service for not keeping “the […]
Flashback: From Angry Bear on 6/8/2003 Hopefully, Mr. McGruder won’t mind. It’s the perfect final take on the Franken/O’Reilly debate on CSPAN. (click to enlarge) ( AB
Rounding Out the List 16. Justice Henry Billings Brown: For authoring the majority opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which not only lead directly to the “separate but equal” doctrine, but played a major role in enshrining Jim Crow.p>17. John Adams: For signing the Alien Act of 1798 and the Sedition Act of 1798. Partly, […]