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The NY Times has an article up today where author Adam Nagourney compares the Bushes to the Adamses: Yet inevitably, the events of recent days have fed the mystique of Mr. Bush as a reluctant inheritor of perhaps America’s most famous dynasty since the Adams family two centuries ago. I always thought the Bushes were [...]

Now, this is clearly a Matski story, because it deals with (1) the senseless War on Drugs, and (2), Flint Michigan. Nevertheless, I found it first… So apparently “guilt by proximity” got written into the law while our backs were turned: That’s right. In Flint, Michigan (and many other cities) if you go out dancing [...]

I guess this was inevitable. I always thought it was really funny that a car company as big as Honda never had a proper pickup truck. Of course, it’s a little bit…odd. But it is a pickup truck nonetheless. I think I might start writing more about cars on this site. I spend a lot [...]

From the Aprill ’05 issue of Harper’s: “The $4.7 Trillion Pyramid: Why Social Security Won’t Be Enough To Save Wall Street” heh. Incidentally, sorry for the light posts… I’ve been slammed with a bunch of other things in my life. Also, today I made the mistake of putting on a pot of coffee, and then [...]

here: As Republican leaders in Congress move to trim billions of dollars from the Medicaid health program, they are simultaneously intervening to save the life of possibly the highest-profile Medicaid patient: Terri Schiavo. The Schiavo case may put a human face on the problem of rising medical costs, both at the state and federal levels. [...]

Freshman Rep. Dave Reichert, representing Seattle’s Eastside, voted “No” on the Schiavo law. He was one of only five Republicans to do so. I don’t want to dwell too much on this issue, because I think it’s absurd that it’s gotten to this. I basically agree with Dahlia Lithwick, even though I appreciate the argument [...]

Some funny stuff in the series of TIME magazine polls on indecency in TV. My favorite, though, comes in Poll #4. Apparently 49% of Americans think frontal nudity is “never suitable” on network TV. OK, that’s fine. but 49% also think it is suitable (the vast majority only after 10pm). Still.. that’s a lot, isn’t [...]

Matt Yglesias has an article up on TAP that pretty much sums up what I was trying to say about Joe Lieberman last week: The liberal group Americans for Democratic Action gave Lieberman’s 2003 voting record a “liberal quotient” of 70 (out of 100), putting him only slightly to the right of center in a [...]

This is a post that I’ve been meaning to put together for a while, but it was only recently that it really crystallized for me. Below are two pictures of the new U.S. Courthouse in downtown Seattle. I’m not an archecture critic, but I am a big fan. And the first thing that hits me [...]

Michael Kinsey has some good stuff to say on Social Security, as always. Bottom Line? Numbers are flexible if you’re the GOP. (see Slant for more in-depth analysis)