I don’t yet have a completely formed picture of my thoughts on Mark Bittman’s move from the food pages of the New York Times to the opinion pages. Sometimes I like what he says, and sometimes, I don’t. (See, for instance, the debate about… Read full post »

So today is the first day of the rest of the… Read full post »

I have wished for the retirement of Jon Kyl before, beginning in January of 2009, when the/… Read full post »

^{Photo from John Edwards 2008 Campaign/CC License}

The ways in which Elizabeth Edwards stunned me are mostly selfish. I was stunned by my own interest in her, stunned again and again by how fascinating I found the trashy, sordid mess that her husband made of their lives. I was stunned, last… Read full post »

It’s nearly election day, and Ted Sorensen is dead. Yes, that will be true for every election to… Read full post »

I was really hoping that this headline involved both Sarah and Todd Palin:

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Last night, we settled in for the premiere of an old favorite (“Castle,”) but found ourselves instead with… Read full post »

Holy crap. I step away from the Internet for five minutes and suddenly Sarah Palin is president. Cripes!… Read full post »

Today, the Washington Post had a really terrible headline on its front page: “Bloggers turn mosque into national… Read full post »

Who said this:

“America is made better by millions of Muslim citizens. America has close and

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Apparently, Dan Quayle’s kid, Ben, who’s running for office in Arizona, has some ‘splaining to do:

Ben Quayle,

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I do not like nicknames. OK, that’s not true. In fiction, I love nicknames — I… Read full post »

David Dayen has a post up at FDL wondering if Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is perhaps signaling/… Read full post »

This is a short note to say I might be posting at a slower pace this week. I'm going to be concentrating on a guest-blogging gig over at Spencer Ackerman's Attackerman blog while he's in Afghanistan. Feel free to stop by over there and say hi, or to/… Read full post »

^{U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Polly Bennett.}

It's been 101 days since April 20, 2010, the day the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded and the Macondo well began gushing oil into the water. After 100 days, where are we?

We're in the… Read full post »

A federal judge has put a hold on parts of the Arizona Immigration law, known as SB 1070/HB 2162, that is scheduled to take effect tomorrow. Four sections of the 14-section law were ruled to have parts that were pre-empted (overlapped!) by existing federal law and have been enjoined (stopped!) pendin… Read full post »

^{Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen arrives in Kandahar this weekend. DoD Photo/McNeeley}

The minute Wikileaks's major classified document dump was announced, I knew Glenn Greenwald would have something to say. His piece at Salon is surprisingly brief, possibly because the leak caught h… Read full post »

According to pool reports, Joe Biden told a fundraising party in North Carolina last night that "the heavy lifting is over" in terms of getting new bills passed this year. He also added this interesting nugget to his speech:

"We stabilized the financial system,” Biden said. We were on the… Read full post »

I don't know much about Journolist beyond what I've heard in the press lately. A recap: It was an e-mail list created by Ezra Klein (now of The Washington Post; then of The American Prospect), open by invitation only to left-leaning journalists, bloggers, and commentators who did not work in governme… Read full post »

The Army announced today that 1,200 National Guard troops will be deployed to the southern border to assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol authorities as part of the Guard's Counterdrug program. They'll deploy to Texas, Cal/… Read full post »

Andrew Leonard has a nice, brief write-up about how BP has been trying to recruit marine biologists and other scientists from Southern universities to help with its legal case. He also cites a Huffington Post story by Dan Froomkin, which offers this tidb/… Read full post »

Matt Yglesias points out today that a small business/… Read full post »

This is what I read for fun:

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has expressed opposition to the possible nomination

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