Ezra Klein

Man, I don’t know what it is with this President. It’s just like flip: In 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney said, “Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it cannot be the basis of a sound energy policy.” Also that year, Ari Fleischer, then Mr. Bush’s press secretary, responded to a question about […]

Low Culture’s parody of the insufferably pedantic, unbearably long-winded, and awkwardly erudite interview with Ben Kunkel on Why Modern Males Suffer From Torpor And Flaccid Personalities is pitch-perfect. The article, meant to be a Q&A with profound self-help implications, is so strangely bad as to be most interesting as a fugitive from good editorial judgment. […]

Sorry I’ve been so out of touch this afternoon, was at a Heritage event on The Lessons of the Roman Empire for America Today. Fairly banal stuff, save for a puzzling assertion that the ancient Romans only worked two days a year to pay taxes (ever heard of tribute?) and a peculiar, though I guess […]

We were never quite able to give them friggin’ laser beams, but the toxic dart guns should still do some damage: Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico. Experts who have studied the US navy’s cetacean training exercises claim the […]

I am directionally-challenged. It’s always been so. When driving new places, I spend a lot of time rolling down the window and begging strangers for help (I’m not one of those guys afraid to plead, if anything, I’m too eager, liable to bug pedestrians for confirmation long before I’m lost), which is fine. But since […]

Posted by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math … but the press doesn’t cover it, does it really matter? I think that the answer is yes. Taking a historical view, mostly by looking at the Vietnam War and its opposition, modern anti-war forces are significantly more successful in influencing public opinion.

By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Sometimes werewolves get letters from Democratic Senators. Other times, they don’t. The following is a letter I didn’t get, but the answer, below the fold, is something I did write. Dear Werewolf, I’d like to earn some respect from the Democratic base for criticizing Bush’s war in a way that […]

By Pepper of the Daily Pepper The New York Times profiled young women with bright futures, all going to Ivy League colleges. Normally, college freshmen have no idea what they want to do with their lives, but these women know exactly what they want. They want to be full-time mothers. At Yale and other top […]

Shakes here… In case you hadn’t heard, there was a bit of commotion in DC this weekend, as 500,000 (C-SPAN estimate, via Truthout) pro-peace and/or anti-war protestors (or, approximately 37 nutzoid radicals, if you read most mainstream media coverage) converged to send a message to the Photo Op in Chief.