Month: December 2009

Blogging is an activity. It’s something you do either in your spare time or the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night. If you are doing full-time political blogging, something is motivating you. For most...

Not much time to comment, but here’s Juan Cole… See if this is covered much in the “slow holiday news.” And it’s funny, I was going ver there to see if there was anything on the Ashura violence in...

SAT Test Analogy Questions 1.) FDL : Riverdaughter :: (A) dog : doghouse (B) tree : tree (C) beaver : dam (D) cat : litter box (E) book : library Update [2009-12-31 15:41:37 by BooMan]: Lambert Strether is such a dipshit....

. This ruling is most welcome, see the many fp stories on this issue by Steven D. Federal appeals court sets limits on police use of Tasers (Sacramento Bee) – A federal appeals court issued one of the most comprehensive...

It’s ass-cold here today and the temperature is dropping. The news is filled with the Palin custody battle, Rovian divorce, a lot of stuff about Iran and Yemen and terrorism, and generally nothing that is of much interest...