One of my favorite bits of right-wing nonsense is the meme being replicated on the internets by Glenn Reynolds et. al. this morning about how the problem with taxing high income earners is that they won't "work hard" if they have to give more of their money to shiftless people who don't "work hard" ...

Glenn Reynolds, the Instadope, defends the paltry turn out at their anti-economic sense anti-stimulus protests by saying… But it’s much bigger news when 200 people with jobs who’ve never protested turn out, than when 20,000 of the usual suspects organized by ACORN or ANSWER march with prep...

Don’t tell me we can’t change. Yes we can! Defense contractor KBR Inc. has been awarded a $35 million Pentagon contract involving major electrical work, even as it is under criminal investigation in the electrocution deaths of at least two U.S. soldiers in Iraq. As Glenn Reynolds might s...

Via Glenn Reynolds, I see that John Pitney has unearthed this gem of a quote: “Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter. � - Sen. Tom Daschle, Congressional Record, May 7, 1998, p. S4507. One could argue that Daschle is in compliance with the ...

As everyone knows by now, Bill Kristol’s last NYT column appeared yesterday. Aside from the italicized footer “This is William Kristol’s last column,” it was unremarkable.  Which, most observers on the Left and Right seem to agree, was something it had in common with most of Kri...

Mickey Kaus quips, “We need a Czar Czar, to crack the whip on all the czars. … P.S.: Also a federal czar policy. Right now, czar decisions are made on an ad hoc, case-by-case basis, with no attempt at czar harmonization.” I have to agree that we’ve gone czar crazy.  WeR...

I love words. I thank you for hearing my words.I want to tell you something about words that I think is important. They're my work, they're my play, they're my passion. Words are all we have, really. We have thoughts but thoughts are fluid.then we assign a word to a thought and we're stuck with that...

Typically, Glenn Reynolds has been pushing this SF Chronicle story on black bloggers. Of course, the story doesn’t pass the smell test. That coverage gap is partly what inspired Gina McCauley to help organize the first Blogging While Brown conference this summer in Atlanta. The most popular on...

Last week's issue of the Village Voice featured Roy Edroso's review of "10 conservative Web scribblers," described therein as "buffoons" and in the article's subhead as "a confederacy of dunces." (Actually, Edroso names twelve bloggers, arriving at his figure of ten by ...

Here's the Ole Perfesser on 9 April 2003, several years before his More Rubble Less Trouble phase:Some people think the looting is bad, but I think that a certain amount is good. It reinforces in people's minds that Saddam is gone, and that he was unpopular. . . . Yeah, the thrill will pass, and soo...