Ezra Klein

Why don’t phishers proof read their e-mails? If you’re trying to defraud me out of my Paypal cash or hijack my Citibank log-in or transfer money from my Washington Mutual account, the least you could do is run spellcheck. Jesus. Kids today.

Jon Cohn’s post on Clinton’s health care plan is essential. I can’t think of any lesson so misremembered, warped, opportunistically used, and wrongly interpreted as the one Democrats have drawn from that battle. In it, the special interests whom the plan was designed to win over (big business and the insurance industry) sat out and […]

I’ve been trying to decide whether or not to link to Krugman’s column today. On the one hand, it’s a nice restatement of the liberal position on health care. On the other, it’s pretty simplistic — you guys have heard this before. But it does inadvertently make a point that needs to be said louder. […]

In one of the weirdest stories I’ve ever read, Matt Drudge is reporting that Ed Klein’s upcoming, hatchet-job-to-end-all-hatchet-jobs alleges that Bill Clinton raped Hillary to conceive Chelsea. Huh. Putting aside the fact that Hillary was one of the most liberated women of her generation and would be about as likely to accept forcible assault as […]

You guys should all check out Mnemosyne’s Playground. She was one of the best commentors at Pandagon, and her blog is shaping up just as good.

I couldn’t disagree more with Matt’s casual acceptance of voucher schools as a way to increase funding for parochial schools. He seems to present it as an issue of choice — this lets parents choose what sort of school to send their children to. But that’s not exactly true, it’s the subsidization of certain choices […]

I have to agree with James Hamilton: it’s time to repeal McCain-Feingold. I’d much rather have parties absorbing unlimited contributions than watch the funding get sucked up by unaccountable, unknowable 527’s. Parties and campaigns can, at the least, be held accountable. 527’s, on the other hand, are just hatchet men, called in for the dirty […]

Matt makes a good point on Dean: Obviously, anyone in politics needs to pay some attention to whatkind of press they get. Even the importance of this can be overstated,but the trap you really don’t want to fall into is of caring whether ornot this segment of media figures likes or respects you. Some Republicans […]

I’m getting back into using the miniblog, so make sure to take a look at it now and again. Lots of interesting stuff that I’ve no angle to comment on but should nevertheless be widely read.

There’s a new wrinkle in the Downing Street Memo saga, and Shakespeare’s Sister has the scoop.