Martin Kramer is a “fellow” of the usual assortment of right-wing full-employment societies (Olin Institute, etc.). He suffers from a textbook case of Conservative Reading Comprehension Disorder. Right now he’s all het up because he’s got the goods on “Chas Freeman̶...

The “homeless cellphone” story (see next post) keeps growing. The Chicago Tribune online site had the first story (from pool reporters’ notes), but the Washington Post has its own version that almost glows with the warmth of simple, truly simple, decency - the basic and fundamental...

Apparently, disposable cellphones are the new color TVs. K-Lo, and a lot of other people, are all worked up over the fact that one of the guys in line at a soup kitchen where Michelle Obama was volunteering the other day was shown in news photos holding a cellphone. Where Do You Send the Bill? Ameri...

Blimey, time flies dunnit! Here I am, back in the Holy Land for a few days, busy as a bee but forgetting to let you know...smack my wrists baby, smack 'em! Anyway, some brief updates for you, stuff you can't see on my Facebook, Twitter or website...Enjoyed Blighty a lot. I want to live there for a b...

I dunno . . . I think Nia-Malika Henderson, a black reporter at Politico, is reaching too far with her claim that Obama is speaking “dog-whistle code” to blacks by using contemporary slang expressions. I think she has a much too uncritical take on the issue, and both unfairly tars Obama ...

Brad, at Sadly No: I just don’t get it. During Bush’s presidency people like me were called traitors on a fairly regular basis because we didn’t show Bush the proper deference when he’d do some goofy shit like choke on a pretzel. Now we have guys on the teevee that are openly talking about a...

I keep wondering what the deal is with Megan McArdle. A more or less self-taught libertarian economics blogger who turned that into some big-league writing gigs, she shows much more facility with the technical aspects of the issues she discusses than most bloggers, which still leaves a lot of room f...

Here’s a twist that doesn’t at all surprise me, but that I have to admit I hadn’t considered before: jurors are apparently Googling information about high-profile defendants in criminal cases, during the trial, in defiance of instructions to avoid press coverage. This guy has some ...

One marvels at how simply, egregiously, bone-deep dumb the most prominent conservatives are. I have often referred to Conservative Reading Comprehension Disorder - the almost invariable phenomenon by which right-wingers simply and unmistakeably fail to understand what they are talking about when the...

Per my takeaways from a verbal discussion today, that’s how long it took Kevin (not KTK) to pretty much completely give up on the Obama Administration. That’s got to be some sort of record for pessimism, or something. And yes, this is a crass attempt to lure Kevin out of Dick Cheney̵...