By Brian Beutler As some of you probably know, I’m leaving tomorrow (on, in fact, a jetplane) for a semi-extended stay in Argentina. I’ll be writing, I hope, aboutinternational criminal justice and the trials of that country’s junta leaders. Hopefully I’ll keep updating my own blog while I’m down there. That’s the plan for now. […]
Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.
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The inaccurate assumption of competence dodge
By Brian Beutler From his op-ed in The Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer engages in what one might call “the inaccurate assumption of competence dodge”: Of all the arguments for pulling out of Iraq, the greater importance of Afghanistan is the least serious. And not just because this argument assumes that the world’s one superpower, which […]
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College Acceptance Rates & Early Action
by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math The news that UMass-Cambridge has a record low acceptance rate of 9% isn’t that terrible. As the ABC article details, the school could fill its incoming class valedectorians, and come close to filling it with students who scored 1600 on the non-writing portions of the SAT. Most of the […]
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Invading non-threatening countries: it’s the new black
(Posted by John.) Boy, first Matthew Yglesias mused about America seizing Canada’s Maritime provinces post-Quebec secession, now Stephen Colbert wants to suck out our northern fossil fuels and convert waterfowl to Christianity. I’m beginning to feel a bit like an Iraqi, circa October 2002…
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In which I self promote
By Brian Beutler I actually began this piece a while back, but there might be added interest in it now in the aftermath of Gore’s testimony. It went up at the Prospect yesterday. Give it a looksee.
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Global Warming Dead-Enders
by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math In the contest to replace Tom DeLay as chief expounder of total nonsense, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) is putting a lot of distance between himself and the pack. After needlessly haranguing Al Gore during his Senate hearings, he’s now blocking—successfully—Gore’s attempt to hold a concert on the National Mall. […]
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Why Is Mark Penn’s Company Funding Republicans?
By Neil the Ethical Werewolf When I first started looking at the activities of Burson Marsteller, the PR firm run by top Hillary Clinton adviser Mark Penn, I found a lot to dislike. Ezra has already mentioned the firm’s union-busting services. Other unsavory clients include Philip Morris and Dow Chemical (for whom BM tried to […]
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Marijuarmulke
By Brian Beutler This is pretty hilarious. Apparently marijuana and Passover are incompatible if you’re an orthodox Jew, even if you’re a huge pot head. If I had to fast all day, though, I don’t know how desirous I’d be of a drug that made me really really hungry. Mainly for all sorts of non-Kosher […]
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The Yglesias plan…
…is one specific incarnation of the Beutler plan–which might more accurately be called the Reid-Pelosi plan. But you get the idea. Cross posted at Brian Beutler.
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Taxation without representation
By Brian Beutler More New York Times linking! The article, by Bob Herbert, is all about how D.C. deserves equalrepresentation in congress. I agree! I’ve gotta say though, that casecan be made on its own merits and Herbert spends a lot of his timerailing against the Bush administration (and the government at large)for various other […]