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Found in a thrift store. But the obvious question is… did it still fit?

As I hear Katrina vanden Heuvel rip Alito to shreds on NPR’s All Things Considered (as I type this!), arguing that he’ll absolutely for sure roll back decades of Civil Rights legislation, etc., etc., I’m struck by the disconnect between how the (NPR caricature of the) “Left” is portraying the nominee versus what seems like [...]

The Alito nomination has but one purpose, we can all agree: appeasing the base and thereby getting the “big mo” back in Bush’s direction. Bush likes to lead, he hates to drift or follow. I’m not convinced that a big cave-in to the base is actually “leading,” of course. But that’s how it will be [...]

I’m this close to succumbing to Scooter Fatigue, but before that happens, I’d like to point to this article in New York Magazine. I do this for two reasons — one, because New York Magazine is not half bad these days and two, because writer John Heilemann gets at the broad brushstrokes that make this [...]

Another slow news week: Miers withdraws, Libby indicted, and the Professor flip-flops on I-330. With special guest and TPM Media Research Fellow Ryan Chiachiere. Episode219.mp3 Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:00:00 PDT 36:04

Via Seattle Monorail Blog, an Interesting op-ed in the Seattle PI on why voting for the monorail is the least bad option. Bottom line: you can’t just keep opposing things. We need answers, and the monorail is the only one that’s been proposed, planned, and vetted: In the four years since the Nisqually earthquake, anybody [...]

Maybe it’s just Friday, and I can’t think straight, but I’m puzzled. There’s all this talk about the various Democratic senators’ evolving positions on the Iraq war will position them for a Presidential run in ’08. Hillary and Biden say “stay the course,” but otherwise keep their mouth shut. Feingold (and now Kerry) argue for [...]

Yesterday, I posited that Hollywood’s closeted atmosphere made it inherently conservative and wondered when the world will know and accept an openly gay leading man. Today, my prayers have been answered: George Takei, who as helmsman Sulu steered the Starship Enterprise through three television seasons and six movies, has come out as a homosexual in [...]

Harriet Miers has withdrawn her name. Who will replace her? Does anyone even want the job? Her official reason is that she wanted to prevent the Senate from seeing White House papers she (and the president) considered confidential: Mr. Bush issued a statement in which he accepted Ms. Miers’s decision with regret, praised her “extraordinarily [...]

If the White Sox hadn’t won last night, if the heads of Satans Incarnate weren’t on the chopping block, if the hurricane season of the century wasn’t underway and if deaths in Iraq hadn’t reached a somber, media-friendly round number, would we have paid more attention to the fact that a major sports figure has [...]