Month: February 2010

Lately there has been a spate of diaries at such web sites as FireDogLake and “Open” Left wherein lay members — typically under attack from site moderators, who act as Democratic Party hacks and gatekeepers...

I’m not sure why Kevin Drum is neutral on a sugared beverage-tax. I like to drink soda that has cane sugar in it every once in a while, but I’ve done my best to completely eliminate high fructose corn syrup from my...

Peyton Manning is a very, very good quarterback. But he hasn’t come close to proving himself the best quarterback ever. He hasn’t even proved himself to be better than his contemporary, Tom Brady. Brady had an off...

“The tea party movement is dead. The one I was familiar with anyway. Judson Phillips held it down and Sarah Palin drove a stake right through its heart live last night on C-Span in front of an unsuspecting audience.”...

I knew I should have gone to that damn Teabagging Convention. Just standing around in the halls talking to those nutters would have been high comic relief. I could have even called myself a journalist and compared notes. But,...