Month: December 2013

I got my hopes up about the peace process in 2000 and I wound up feeling like an idiot, so I am basically biased against even the idea of having hope. No one wants to be justifiably criticized for an inability to learn from...

Who makes the best milkshake? Am I the only one who only ever feels nostalgia for the 1970’s?

I think Brian Beutler makes important and fair points when he argues that John Boehner isn’t much different from the nut-jobs he just picked a fight with, but I’m not sure that Beutler has sufficiently considered the...

I think Brian Beutler makes important and fair points when he argues that John Boehner isn’t much different from the nut-jobs he just picked a fight with, but I’m not sure that Beutler has sufficiently considered the...

It surprised me that there were only sixty-two Republican defections on the Murray/Ryan budget bill yesterday. It signaled to me that Paul Ryan has a lot more juice than John Boehner, and conservatives are more willing to follow...