Are Dick and Don as Good as Dead?

If you've ever wondered how intensely imbecilic Michelle Malkin, John Hinderaker, David Horowitz, and their Epsilon blogchildren can be, Glenn Greenwald has a nice summary here. Via.

What It Takes to Write for Slate

Christopher Hitchens' pathetic decline picks up speed. (By the way, this recent cry for attention aided Eros about as much as Hitchens' following non sequiturs should help Ares.) [M]ay I propose some ways in which those who don't want to be associated with Michael...

More on Santorum

Scott P. Richert has more on the WMD non-story, and why Sen. Santorum may be so hot for it. Arthur Silber writes to remind me that the WMD matter is largely irrelevant, and I agree, but it's always good to remind people how dishonest – and ridiculously so – the...

Jackpot! Or Not

Why Rick Santorum's announcement of an Iraq WMD discovery should be taken as seriously as… well, everything Rick Santorum says. Clark Stooksbury has more.

About That Realistic Game Plan…

Arthur Silber is back among the blogging, and at the end of a post today he reissues an old favorite of mine from 2003: "It's Your Goddamned Mess. You Be 'Constructive.'" (I cited it in this 2004 piece.) Today's remarks, on the stay-the-course fundamentalists who run...

Turning Point #10

That's David Weigel's count, anyway: It's fantastic news that U.S. forces have killed a terrorist who murdered hundreds or thousands of Americans and Iraqis in cold blood. It's definitely not wise for pundits to take that news and bash Iraq War skeptics over the head...

So Long as It’s NIMBY

Radley Balko has done some excellent work covering the militarization of law enforcement in the War on Drugs. In his most recent post on the subject, he includes a letter written by a man whose niece was shot and killed by a gung-ho cop "during a drug raid that went...