Ezra Klein

Anybody figure out what prompted Zidane to drive his forehead into Materazzi’s solar plexus?

(Posted by John.) I’m just gonna go and jump on the bandwagon and reccomend the John Judis piece on the Madman Theory of international politics. What surprises me about the post is that people ever treated Bush’s accusations that Saddam was a “madman” as something that needed to be heeded.

(Posted by John.) via The Oil Drum, I see that the tar sands in Alberta have started getting squeezed by rapidly increasing prices in the last year. This has some major implications for those who have denied the existence of Peak Oil, and some general implications for energy in the 21st century.

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf His continued support of the Iraq War and attacks on the patriotism of its opponents are the main reasons for opposing Joe Lieberman, but his history of attacks on fellow Democrats and liberal ideals is much longer. There was his support of DOMA in 1996, his scolding of Clinton during […]

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math To my untrained eye, I think this award has to go to Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal/Manchester United). C Ronaldo’s main contributions to his national side’s fourth-place finish consist of frequent sprints from midfield towards the 18-yard box, ineffective stepovers and fake-stepovers that fool absolutely no one, and the Portuguese special, […]

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf I’m going to post an extended denunciation of Joe Lieberman later this weekend, but I thought it’d be good to get this point out of the way first: the fact that Chuck Schumer and a few other national Democratic bigwigs are hemming and hawing about whether to support Ned Lamont […]

I don’t know, reacting to North Korea’s missiles that don’t fly with a missile defense system that doesn’t function seems somehow fitting to me. A return to symmetrical, if incompetent, warfare.

Shakes here… Taking a cue from John Amato regarding an unauthorized leak to the Daily News, which subsequently reported on the FBI sting that nabbed alleged terrorists chatting online about blowing up a commuter train in New York, Glenn Greenwald asked yesterday, “Why are Bush supporters celebrating today’s leak of classified information?” The obvious answer […]

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math I’m still waiting for President Bush to re-launch his Social Security privatization bid to distract the entire center-left blogosphere from various intra-party squabbles, but in the meantime, I ought to eat a little bit of crow for my prediction that Ned Lamont couldn’t mount much of a challenge to […]