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Read Stuff, You Should 27 Aug 2013 | 05:34 pm
Happy Birthday to Jim Thome, 43. Right to the good stuff: 1. Dahlia Lithwick on Ginsburg and Scalia. 2. Good catch on Ted Cruz, from Juliet Lapidos. 3. I sort of wonder if we'll hit the point of s...
More Monday Cranky Blogging 27 Aug 2013 | 12:59 am
Well, actually, it's over at Plum Line: I get cranky when people say that the Iowa Caucuses are going away. They will not. But I'll toss in a good point that Ed Kilgore made: You really need to dig ...
The Search for the Wrath of the Conquest of the Planet of the Bride of the Son of the Return of Cranky Blogging 26 Aug 2013 | 09:03 pm
Oy, Fournier. There's just about no way to get a "generational" analysis of anything right. People aren't really grouped, naturally, into generations -- Baby Boomer mythology notwithstanding. So whe...
Read Stuff, You Should 26 Aug 2013 | 06:08 pm
Happy Birthday to Chris Pine, 33. He's okay as Kirk, I suppose; not bad enough to keep the first movie from being quite entertaining, but certainly not even remotely good enough to rescue the disaster...
Sunday Question for Liberals 26 Aug 2013 | 01:01 am
What should the US do in (or about) Syria?
Sunday Question for Conservatives 25 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
What's the worst foreign policy/national security mistake that Barack Obama has made? By "worst" I mean the one with the most important consequences, so I'd also like to know what you think it has maj...
What Mattered This Week? 24 Aug 2013 | 10:33 pm
The events in Syria this week, and the emerging world reaction, mattered. Not sure what I have for "didn't matter," although someone did report a poll in some state matching Hillary Clinton against o...
Friday Baseball Post 24 Aug 2013 | 09:26 am
I was going to argue with Jonathan Chait over the question of why college football is popular when minor league sports are not, but Scott Lemieux beat me to it and basically nailed it. Chait: [I]f c...
Elsewhere: Gerrymanders, Obamacare/ACA, more 24 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
A new column at the Prospect today defending odd-shaped House districts, and arguing that gerrymandering in general isn't that big a deal. Note that you don't have to believe the latter in order to be...
Catch of the Day 23 Aug 2013 | 09:11 pm
You probably read about that PPP poll result in which Louisiana Republicans blamed Barack Obama for Katrina. Great fun for liberals! But do read Mark Blumenthal and Ariel Edwards-Levy for a round up o...
