Month: January 2013

Fair warning. This will be a bit of a rant. But first, some news (or at least news to some). The frogs are dying all over the world. In moist, mossy rooms, rows of glass aquariums bathed in eerie light shelter the last of the...

If the recent Senate campaign in Massachusetts revealed anything, it was that Scott Brown is not—previous carefully crafted public reputation to the contrary—a “nice guy”.  In fact, aside from the...

And we have a winner! Congratulation to Ezra Klein, Bloomberg View columnist, host of the Washington Post’s “Wonkblog” and winner of 2013’s first Dionne Award—presented at the whim of this blog to a...

Steve Benen makes an observation: According to GOP leaders, policymakers need to replace the $1.2 trillion in automatic sequestration cuts with some other, comparable cuts, and need to come up with $1.5 trillion in cuts in order...

I may be full of myself, but my sucks-to-awesome ratio is so far below Andrew Sullivan’s that I ought to be able to do this and retire tomorrow.