Yikes. James Kirchek thinks the processes the Senate and the House of Representatives use vote on legislation are “a tad totalitarian.” I thought that was the sort of overheated rhetoric The New Republic eschewed. Next the Plank will be talking about Bu$hCo and Amerikkka. Meanwhile, Chris Hayes snarks, “Can something be “a tad totalitarian?” Isn’t […]
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 VA THEY…
THE VA THEY AIN’T. Reader RN writes in to say: Walter Reed is an Army hospital, not a VA facility. As an active duty soldier, the care I received at Evans Army Community Hospital (the Army hospital in Colorado Springs) was best described as mediocre; the care I’ve received at the VA Medical Center in […]
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China, cont.
(Posted by John.) For a perfect example of the kind of writing Sino-American relations don’t need, read this by Mark Helprin. Helprin makes much of America’s reduction in it’s nuclear arsenal, and the supposed disadvantage this will bring vs. China, but there’s really only three things you need to know:
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Last week’s blogging, today!
(Posted by John.) Many if not most of you probably saw this at Kevin Drum’s place, but it’s kind of important and I’d like to think energy-blogging is still something I do every once in a while. Apparently, Stuart Staniford at The Oil Drum (your one-stop energy news shopping destination) has crunched the numbers, and […]
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US Soldiers Allegedly Delete Footage, Photos After Afghanistan Attack
[litbrit speaking] Journalists covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are there becausethey believe the ends–getting the story and the images out there,telling the truth–justify the means, which is to say, putting theirown lives in grave danger by even being in country. Imagine the angerand disappointment a reporter or photographer feels when a story isburied […]
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To Fight For The Right Without Question Or Pause
[litbrit says Good Morning!] Ah, Monday fun. I can’t imagine how Max Blumenthal of The Nation was able to get himself and his cameraman into the CPAC to-do this weekend, but they managed to secure some excellent footage, including a little smackdown of Ann Coulter and a meet-‘n-greet with Flipper, the anti-Romney dolphin. The pièce […]
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Huckabee and Crime
By Ezra I was struck by this on Mike Huckabee’s attitudes towards crime and punishment: [Huckabee] has refused to take the predictable path by talking tough on crime to deflect the DuMond criticism. Instead, he campaigns on a compassionate approach to wrongdoers, especially those whose crimes are the result of drug or alcohol addiction. At […]
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Gomaa’s Latest Fatwa Is A Winner
By Neil the Ethical Werewolf The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Ali Gomaa, has come out with a fatwa permitting women to hide premarital sexual relations from their husbands, either with surgery to reconstruct their hymens or by just not admitting their sexual past. While we in the West have progressed far enough that it makes […]
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Big Consumer-vs-Big Content
by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math Via Engadget again, Giving consumers just the right amount of abililty to move music & video around is a bit more complicated than simply eliminating DRM. But there’s some bipartisan coalition that’s considering changes to the reviled Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Rick Boucher (D-VA) and John Doolittle (R-CA) have […]