Ezra Klein

James Dobson, fresh from protecting our children from the persuasive homosexual arguments of aquatic cartoon characters, has turned his attention to bigger, harder, longer fights. Namely, homosexuals (what can I say? The guy’s got focus). Along with some Christian superfriends, he’s formed The Arlington Group and written Karl Rove a letter promising to sink Social […]

Remember all the times your teacher told you how special you were? Remember all the ego strokes delivered by well-meaning adults, certain enough compliments and praise would keep you from using crack, having kids and needing condoms? Eh, turns out it did no good. No wonder you’re such a fuck up.

You know, it makes a sort of cosmic sense that Orwell is dead, because I don’t think he could exist on the same planet as Frank Luntz. You’ve really got to listen to this Air America clip, it’s just…I mean wow. It’s the first time I can confidently call Orwellian an understatement. And, sadly, the […]

I know Bush doesn’t read the papers, but can’t someone in his office monitor them? Because post-inauguration speech, this story seems worth some attention. A prominent Iranian artist and pro-Democracy activist fled to Australia, was detained for the last five years, and has now been denied a humanitarian visa, which means deportation. When the news […]

I’m going to keep this atop the page for the day, or at least the morning. New posts will appear under it. If you’ve read the welcome message already, just scroll on down for fresh blogging goodness. If not, click “More” and have at it.

Is the “Read More” feature working now, or are people still being deposited betwixt my name and photo? And someone mark down my 20 points for correctly using “betwixt” in a sentence. Update: All signs point to yes. Greg, who figured it out, is just as talented as he claims.

Good post by Kos on the changes Reid has wrought. The Senate Dems really have transformed from a yipping, useless caucus to a united opposition force. And it’s as much in what they do — The 10 Leadership bills, Schumer retiring the DSCC’s debt in record time — as in what they feel freed to […]

I’m getting complaints that clicking on “Read More…” vaults you to the top of the page. This isn’t happening for me, but it’s widespread enough that I should try and fix it anyway. So all you html geniuses out in the audience — any idea what’s going on? if it helps, something weird happens when […]

During an overly busy Monday, an important post got away from me. Yesterday morning, the Senate Democratic Leadership unveiled the 10 bills comprising the year’s Democratic agenda. And they’re good. Max has the policy papers up for download, Steve Soto has more in the way of summaries and I’ve put the Leadership’s rundown after the […]

PZ Myers is right: if evolution is a religion, religion is no longer a word with a recognizable meaning. That’s what’s so confusing to me about that rebuttal; do creationists really want to argue that religion is nothing more than a way of explaining certain portions and conditions of reality? I would think they’d want […]