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Friday, July 18, 2008

18 Jul 2008 12:10 pm

Rather On Jackson

Dan says Jesse helped pave the way for an Osama bin Laden.

18 Jul 2008 11:31 am

Keep Your Neocons Close

Robert Stacy McCain has some Washington advice for Ross:

1. Stay to the right of the Left. Don't try to get into a one-upmanship situation where you're trying to outdo them in multicultural enthusiasm. You can't win that fight.

2. Avoid arguments with Paleos. Those guys play for keeps and (as Joan Jett said) they don't give a damn about their bad reputations.

3. Keep your friends close, and your Neocons closer. This is the flip-side of my advice about the Paleos. Whatever your quarrels with the Neos, avoid making any outright enemies, or next thing you know, you're an "Unpatriotic Conservative" and NRO will dump you like yesterday's garbage.

Clark Stooksbury hits back, as does Larison:

This last point seems the most remarkable, since it plainly acknowledges the culture of intimidation and ostracism that neoconservatives promote as if it were simply a fact of life, rather than a despicable tactic to be repudiated by reasonable people. The essence of this point seems to be: live in deathly fear of your “friends,” who will try to destroy you the moment that you utter a sentence that they do not like. Some friends!

18 Jul 2008 11:12 am

The Brits Scold Shrum

His somewhat partisan remarks at an institution supposed to be non-partisan has gotten Gordon Brown into a spot of trouble. Bloggers flushed out the mini-scandal.

18 Jul 2008 11:09 am

Gondry Explained

How did he film that astonishing simultaneous-reverse single tracking shot? Here's a video to explain.

18 Jul 2008 11:03 am

How Many Hearings On Afghanistan?

Obama has been criticized for only attending one hearing on Afghanistan in the last two years. Which is one more than John McCain.

18 Jul 2008 11:01 am

John Ashcroft says something that has no basis in history or legal precedent: that "waterboarding" has been consistently deemed legal. It is demonstrably untrue, false, self-evidently wrong to anyone who has access to Google. There is no defense of this bald-faced untruth except that Ashcroft cannot bring himself to realize that he authorized war crimes.

18 Jul 2008 10:51 am

Does Obama Get Europe?

Steve Clemons wonders why Obama is skipping Brussels:

...for Obama to neglect Brussels and the vital significance of what is going on in the evolving institutional heart of Europe may amplify doubt about him and his strategic template. Long ago, I broke the story that Senator Obama had not chaired any policy hearings of the European Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I thought that this got overplayed by some others -- but still, it raised questions about the status of Europe in Obama's world view...while I still applaud his forthcoming journey, I need to underscore that the Europe box is not in fact checked off until he gets to Brussels. We'll consider it half checked off -- sort of like a spare in bowling perhaps.

Judah Grunstein agrees.

18 Jul 2008 10:27 am

The View From Your Window

Washington, Georgia, 11.30 am.

18 Jul 2008 09:49 am

On Borders

Kerry Howley knocks GNP's nationalist impulses:

You can't really get through Grand New Party without feeling that anyone who lacks an American passport is an enemy to this vision. We know that it's possible to dredge up a few votes by blaming entrenched native-born poverty on Mexican laborers. Nor is it hard to convince (otherwise) educated Americans that the rise of a Chinese and Indian middle class is a catastrophe rather than an unprecedented increase in human welfare. This is a politics of exclusion, and we are tribal beings.

Reihan tries to parry the attack. Wilkinson and Larison are having a debate on similar grounds.

18 Jul 2008 09:47 am

Hewitt Award Nominee

A t-shirt from the recently concluded Texas Republican convention:

There probably aren't that many New Yorker readers in the Texas GOP, I'm guessing. Or maybe there are now.

18 Jul 2008 09:24 am

The Secularization Of America

Frank Newport looks at polling on religion:

... older Americans are relatively more religious than younger Americans because they are old -- a standard pattern, but also it appears because the young people of today are particularly less likely to be religious than was the case for the young people of yesterday. (This suggests, of course, that as the young people of today age, they will become more religious, but most likely will never be as religious as their parents and grandparents).

18 Jul 2008 08:53 am

Too Eager To Be Veep

No, not Romney. Chris Cillizza makes the case against McCain picking Crist.

Crist's appeal to voters in Florida is based largely on who he is, not what he stands for. His detractors attribute his high favorability ratings to the fact that his chief governing philosophy is based on doing whatever is easy and popular. Crist defenders insist that he is a compromiser by nature, an approach to governing that rank partisans might not like but that voters respond to.

Still, Crist's passion is clearly his populist pitch not his policy chops. At the national level, Crist would be challenged far more often than he is in Florida on his stances on issues and his own proposals on key public policy matters of the day.

And, given that McCain's appeal to voters is far more dependent on his personality than his policies, it might make sense for the Arizona senator to choose someone who adds policy heft to the ticket.

18 Jul 2008 08:27 am

Death Of An Accent

Megan sighs:

It's odd that an entire American accent disappeared virtually overnight: the upper class American accent that covered not only the northeastern seaboard, but California as well. Some of my friends parents had it, and a few famous people are still hanging on, like former New Jersey governor Tom Kean. But the accent of the Roosevelts, Julia Child and Katherine Hepburn pretty much up and vanished sometime in the late 1950s.

18 Jul 2008 08:17 am

The Dangers Of Thinking Too Much

Jonah Lehrer has a fascinating post on why people buy the wrong house:

Ap Dijksterhuis, a psychologist at Radboud University in the Netherlands (and expert on unconscious thought), has done some cool studies that look at how people shop for homes, and how they often fall victim to what he calls a "weighting mistake". Consider two housing options: a three bedroom apartment that is located in the middle of a city, with a ten minute commute time, or a five bedroom McMansion in the suburbs, with a forty-five minute commute. "People will think about this trade-off for a long time," Dijksterhuis writes. "And most them will eventually choose the large house. After all, a third bathroom or extra bedroom is very important for when grandma and grandpa come over for Christmas, whereas driving two hours each day is really not that bad." What's interesting is that the more time people spend deliberating, the more important that extra space becomes.

Continue reading "The Dangers Of Thinking Too Much" »

18 Jul 2008 07:54 am

Central America Czar

Dave Barry visits Costa Rica:

After three or four solid minutes of guide instruction, we mounted our ATVs ("ATV" stands for "North Atlantic Treaty Organization") and took off on a three-hour tour of the countryside, much of it off-road on extremely rough trails, which are virtually indistinguishable from the Costa Rican highway system. It was a great opportunity to really experience nature by driving past it at a high rate of kilometers. I enjoyed it immensely. I thought about quitting my job and hitting the road, just me and my ATV with the hotel towels strapped to the front with bungee cords. It was a nice fantasy, but it ended when I was forced to confront a harsh reality: I don't have a job.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

17 Jul 2008 08:33 pm

Face Of The Day

A pilgrim looks on during the Papal Welcome Ceremony at Barangaroo, on Sydney Harbour on July 17, 2008 in Sydney, Australia. Organised every two to three years by the Catholic Church, World Youth Day (WYD) is an invitation from the Pope to the youth of the world to celebrate their faith. The celebration, being held in Sydney from July 15 to July 20, 2008, will mark the first visit of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to Australia. By Kristian Dowling/Getty Images.

17 Jul 2008 08:18 pm

Is Obama's Spending Out Of Control?

No.

17 Jul 2008 06:27 pm

The Tehran Shuffle

Is the Bush administration's decision to engage Iran without suspension of uranium enrichment another North Korea model move?

17 Jul 2008 06:19 pm

Yglesias Award Nominee

"Obama's opposition is right along the lines of the National Education Association, and the teachers union is a reliable and powerful Democratic ally. But this is one time where he should have opposed them and made it clear that vouchers can force school districts, administrators and teachers to shape up or see their students ship out. It is unconscionable to ask a parent to watch as his child is stuck in a failing school or district, and ask him to bank on a politician coming up with more funds to improve the situation. Fine, call vouchers a short-term solution to a long-term problem, but I'd rather have a child getting the best education -- now -- rather than having to hope and pray down the line," - Roland Martin, CNN.

17 Jul 2008 05:27 pm

McCain's Fading Money Problem

But his gains may be the GOP's loss. Domenico Montanaro notes:

McCain really doesn’t have a money problem. In fact, as Rick Davis bragged last week, money isn't going to be the issue many thought it would be just two months ago. Why is this? It appears many Republican donors are buying into the argument that the ONLY shot Republicans have of winning anything is the presidency. And this is hurting Republicans running for the House and Senate where Democrats are dominating on the financial front.

Continue reading "McCain's Fading Money Problem" »

17 Jul 2008 05:07 pm

Hewitt Award Nominee

"Barack Obama's recent call for "civilian national security force" that is "just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded" as the nation's military didn't sound any better than it did in the original German," - Confederate Yankee.

Still, it's good to see some on the right begin to worry about state power. Funny how oblivious they were when a president asserted the right to capture, imprison without charges and torture anyone he named an "enemy conbatant." But the liberals are the fascists, aren't they?

17 Jul 2008 04:58 pm

Walkableness Mapped

How walkable is your neighborhood?

17 Jul 2008 04:27 pm

Poetry News

Kay Ryan, an openly lesbian poet, has been named the new poet laureate. From the Atlantic's archives, one of her poems:

"Hailstorm"

Like a storm
of hornets, the
little white planets
layer and relayer
as they whip around
in their high orbits,
getting more and
more dense before
they crash against
our crust. A maelstrom
of ferocious little
fists and punches,
so hard to believe
once it's past.

(Image by Flickr user Chealion)

17 Jul 2008 04:10 pm

A Bright Future For Nuclear Power?

Bradford Plumer thinks not.

17 Jul 2008 04:00 pm

Seligman's Sophistry?

A reader writes:

I'm glad that Mayer responded to Seligman's non-denial denial--and also glad that you'e been highlighting the back and forth. Just like the APA, Seligman is happy to "strongly disapprove of torture" and to "never provide assistance in its process." But ask the APA what it means by"torture," and it will refuse to answer--or refer you over to the federal government. Credulous news outlets tend to run headlines like "APA passes resolution strongly condemning torture" without noticing the word games at play. (Art Levine wrote a good piece about this in the Washington Monthly.) Seligman plays the exact same game, and, since I once respected his work, it's a sickening thing to see. So let's ask Seligman: How do YOU define torture? Is waterboarding, forced standing, or exposure to extremes of heat and cold torture? If what we read about Guantanamo Bay is true, do you condemn it?

17 Jul 2008 03:46 pm

Living The Oprah Way

A frightful new blog:

I am performing an experiment: for one year, I will live as Oprah advises on her television show, on her website, and in the pages of her magazines. The tagline to her website is “Live Your Best Life” and I wonder, will I truly find bliss if I commit wholeheartedly to her lifestyle suggestions?

(Hat tip: Paul Constant)

17 Jul 2008 03:38 pm

Pardoning War Criminals

Stuart Taylor argues against war crimes for those involved with torture:

The reason for pardons is simple: what this country needs most is a full and true accounting of what took place. The incoming president should convene a truth commission, with subpoena power, to explore every possible misdeed and derive lessons from it. But this should not be a criminal investigation, which would only force officials to hire lawyers and batten down the hatches.

I must say I'm baffled by Stu's sudden campaign - he already began this in National Journal - to support immunity for war crimes to those responsible for them. His argument seems to be that if we prosecute those who knowingly broke the law, knowingly crafted torture techniques, and knowingly lied about it to the public, the criminals will be less likely to tell us what they know. But war criminals, because of the very gravity of their crimes, are unlikely to confess to anything, even granted immunity. Does anyone think Addington or Yoo will cop to their crimes under any circumstance? And the precedent of letting them off the hook essentially signals to future presidents that torture is fine and forgivable.

It isn't. These people knew full well what they were doing; there is a growing documentary record of their criminality; and their own "subjective views" that they were only doing it to save the state are what every war criminal has always claimed. Yoo's memo, drawing on Serbian fascist precedents, cannot conceivably be understood as anything but a candid backing for torture. The man has said he'd be fine if the president crushed the testicles of a terror suspect's child to get a confession, true or not.

Continue reading "Pardoning War Criminals" »

17 Jul 2008 03:11 pm

K-Lo Will Agree

Hewitt plugs Romney, again:

Romney's "Ms"--the message on the economy, his and his supporters' money, the Mormons and the enthusiasm they would bring to the campaign, especially in Mormon-heavy states like Colorado and Nevada, and of course Romney's ties to his home state Michigan-- make the case for choosing Romney very strong. An early selection would give the campaign an huge lift throughout the summer, one that could keep the already lower-than-expected Obama lead in the single digits.

If Romney is picked, Independents will flee to Obama.

17 Jul 2008 02:41 pm

Hard To Hate

Chait still "kinda likes" McCain:

Beneath his wildly fluctuating ideological positions, McCain is an establishmentarian Republican. Unlike Bush, he cares about elite opinion. He is comfortable sharing power in the traditional postwar style rather than monopolizing it. He might not be another Teddy Roosevelt, but right now another Gerald Ford doesn't look so bad.

17 Jul 2008 02:29 pm

David Lynch On The iPhone

Not a fan - as far as watching movies is concerned.

17 Jul 2008 02:15 pm

A Reason For The African HIV Epidemic?

On the heels of PEPFAR, a new study:

A genetic variation which evolved to protect people of African descent against malaria has now been shown to increase their susceptibility to HIV infection by up to 40 per cent, according to new research. Conversely, the same variation also appears to prolong survival of those infected with HIV by approximately two years....Around 90 per cent of people in Africa carry the genetic variation, meaning that it may be responsible for an estimated 11 per cent of the HIV burden there. The authors observe that sexual behaviour and other social factors do not fully explain the large discrepancy in HIV prevalence in populations around the world, which is why genetic factors are a vital field of study.

Razib comments here.

17 Jul 2008 01:52 pm

Kansas Omens

Nate Silver is worried:

It's just one poll, and it's not in a state of any enormous amount of electoral significance, but the new Rasmussen poll that shows Barack Obama trailing by 23 points in Kansas -- he had been down by just 10 last month -- is a little ominous. Obama's numbers are bad across the board: he's getting a relatively low percentage of Democrats, trailing by 17 points among independent voters, and his approval ratings are negative.

17 Jul 2008 01:35 pm

Annoyed, Intrigued, Impressed, Curious, Taken Aback, And Baffled

Drum has mixed emotions about GNP:

Their agenda is fundamentally natalist: they want to protect the traditional family and they want that traditional family to have plenty of kids. To accomplish that, they propose a variety of initiatives to reduce out-of-wedlock births, make divorce harder, use the tax code to subsidize childbearing, and so forth. The problem here— and it’s one they seem to understand—is that there’s something fundamentally hypocritical about this: it involves an extensive program of social engineering being put in place by conservative elites who don’t really need (or want to be bound by) any of its rules themselves.

Continue reading "Annoyed, Intrigued, Impressed, Curious, Taken Aback, And Baffled" »

17 Jul 2008 12:54 pm

The View From Your Window

Minneapolis, Minnesota, 8.30 pm.

17 Jul 2008 12:30 pm

Obamacon Watch

"I'm a lifelong Republican - a supply-side conservative. I worked in the Reagan White House. I was the chief economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for five years. In 1994, I helped write the Republican Contract with America. I served on Bob Dole's presidential campaign team and was chief economist for Jack Kemp's Empower America. This November, I'm voting for Barack Obama.

When I first made this decision, many colleagues were shocked. How could I support a candidate with a domestic policy platform that's antithetical to almost everything I believe in?

The answer is simple: Unjustified war and unconstitutional abridgment of individual rights vs. ill-conceived tax and economic policies - this is the difference between venial and mortal sins. Taxes, economic policy and health care reform matter, of course. But how we extract ourselves from the bloody boondoggle in Iraq, how we avoid getting into a war with Iran and how we preserve our individual rights while dealing with real foreign threats - these are of greater importance," - Larry Hunter, New York Daily News.

17 Jul 2008 11:58 am

The Faux Horserace

Larison chides me for attacking Dick Morris. I agree with this comment on his site:

It’s at best misleading to make anything of leads in polls “disappearing” and “reappearing” on a day-to-day basis. Sure, it’s possible that those shifts are significant of daily shifts in voter preferences, but overwhelmingly more likely (and militated for by Occam’s razor) that nothing at all changed in that period, and the poll had simply captured statistical noise. That’s why polling averages are useful. They help discriminate between real shifts in opinion and noise. Writing an article about fluctuations in a single daily tracking poll is a good sign of an innumerate hack, and cherrypicking a single poll that conforms to one’s biases before any verifiable trend can be adduced is breathtakingly mendacious — i.e., exactly what you’d expect from Dick Morris. True, we shouldn’t impute more errors to him than he makes on his own, but an epistemology that extends Morris the benefit of the doubt we are accustomed to extend to reasonable and honest people is bound to lead to error.

17 Jul 2008 11:46 am

Obama's Was Flawed, McCain's Was A Fantasy

Fred Kaplan sorts through the candidates' war speeches.

17 Jul 2008 11:44 am

The Beginnings Of The Terrorist Fist Bump

Christopher Beam spills.

17 Jul 2008 11:21 am

Do Blogs Suck?, Ctd.

A very kind defense of blogging and appreciation of my writing from Politics of Scrabble. Appell follows up on his rant here.

17 Jul 2008 10:54 am

Mayer On Seligman

Psychologist Marty Seligman has objected to the notion that he "assisted" the torture program of the president in Gitmo and throughout the war on terror. Jane Mayer never actually used that word, others have in describing Mayer's book. No facts in Mayer's book have been disputed by Seligman. Here's Jane's response to his protestation of total innocence of what he became involved with, wittingly or unwittingly:

Professor Seligman’s disavowal actually adds a rather interesting new fact to the story of how the psychology profession played a role in the CIA’s “special” interrogation program. In “The Dark Side,” I established by interviewing him, that he had personally spoken for three hours at the Navy’s SERE School in San Diego, in April of 2002, at a somewhat mysterious confab organized in part by the head of Behavioral Science at the CIA.

This was a pretty crucial moment in the development of America’s secret interrogation and detention program. Abu Zubayda had been captured just weeks before, and the CIA was trying to come up with ways to make him talk. They had no patience for the slow, rapport-building methods used by the FBI, whose role in the case they had just superceded. But what to do? At this very moment, Professor Seligman, it seems, agreed to participate in what he says was an unexplained private high-level CIA meeting, held on the campus of the part of the Navy that runs a secret program emulating torture – the SERE School in San Diego.

Professor Seligman says he has no idea why he was called in from his academic position in Pennsylvania, to suddenly appear at this CIA event. He just showed up and talked for three hours about how dogs, when exposed to horrible treatment, give up all hope, and become compliant. Why the CIA wanted to know about this at this point, he says he never asked. But somehow- and this is what is news as far as I know – Professor Seligman does know that in his audience were the two psychologists who soon after became the key advisers to the CIA’s “enhanced” interrogation program: James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen. So, Professor Seligman, must have had some contact with them, since he knew they were in his audience. Did he speak with them? What did they talk about?

Continue reading "Mayer On Seligman" »

17 Jul 2008 10:29 am

Cycling Stigma

Ezra keeps the bike debate going:

...cycling in some countries is a demographically specific pursuit while in other countries, it's a broadly used form of transportation favored by substantial chunks of both genders, all age groups, and all income levels. The overarching point is simply that, in societies where cycling infrastructure is intelligently planned, there's nothing elitist, or liberal, or uncommon, about it... In America no one cycles, and when you're over thirty, really no one cycles. In the Netherlands, a quarter of the old make their trips by bike. Which is just to say, everyone cycles. It's like walking, or driving: A mode of transportation that's often the best for a given trip. Not some sort of radical lifestyle statement.

17 Jul 2008 09:59 am

Obama Banks $52 Million In June

Marc explains what that means.

17 Jul 2008 09:56 am

"Healthy Debate"

RedState, bastion of independent thinking:

Anyone who reads RedState on a regular basis knows by now that the contributors who lend content to the site aren’t shills for Republicans in Congress.

And it’s that dogged independence that gives so much credibility to the conservative blogosphere -- credibility that simply doesn't exist on the left, where blogs like the Puffington Host [sic.] and Daily Kos serve as a bulletin board for standard Democratic talking points, and where opposing viewpoints are shouted down from view.

17 Jul 2008 09:15 am

The GOP's Organizing Engine

Could Huckabee as veep get it going?:

Evangelical Christians remain the organizing engine of the Republican Party, and they typically don’t get the credit they deserve for winning the race for Bush in 2004 (usually pundits like to frame the outcome as "John Kerry lost," despite unprecedented Democratic turnout). McCain’s current level of milquetoast support from that group is a major obstacle to him winning in an environment where Democrats are both more numerous and significantly harder in their support for Obama.

Continue reading "The GOP's Organizing Engine" »

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

16 Jul 2008 09:28 pm

The HIV Travel Ban Is Repealed

I'm not usually speechless but I'm ecstatic to report that the Senate just passed PEPFAR without the Sessions amendment, and Senator Biden, who managed the bill, just said they will probably avoid a conference with the House and send the bill forthwith to the president's desk. Barring some unforeseen event, the HIV Travel Ban - a relic of the days when HIV was a source of fear and stigma and terror - is finally over.

Obviously, the bigger achievement in PEPFAR is the funding for continued help for those with HIV and AIDS in the developing world - people whose plight is unimaginably worse than mine or so many others trapped by this HIV law. Bush's legacy in this is one for which he is rightly proud. But for those of us who have long dreamed of becoming Americans, and have been prevented by 1993 law from even being able to enter or leave the US without waivers or fear or humiliation, this is a massive burden lifted.

I'm not exaggerating when I say that it's one of the happiest days of my whole life. For two and a half decades, I have longed to be a citizen of the country I love and have made my home. I now can. There is no greater feeling.

Thanks go to many, many people, chiefly Senators Kerry and Smith, who made this a bipartisan priority. Gordon Smith proved how Republicans can reach out to those in genuine need, even if some are gay. All of us with HIV and with spouses or loved ones with the virus are in his debt. But also: Rob Epplin and Alex Nunez, Smith's and Kerry's amazing staffers, who made this possible. The Human Rights Campaign came through too, with insistent, diligent lobbying and a last-minute member email blitz. Immigration Equality, the group that does all the heavy lifting on LGBT and HIV immigration issues, were indispensable. Thanks, Rachel and Adam in particular. A word too to Senators Lugar and Biden, who shepherded the bill forward. I'm grateful too for those behind the scenes, Democrats and Republicans, who helped enormously: Carl Schmid and Jeff Trandahl, in particular. I will not forget Yuval Levin's support. And a word to my friend, David Kuo, who helped me through some of the bleakest days I experienced because of this law. My closest friends know who they are and they know what they've done.

I've lived with this awful sense of insecurity, of fear of leaving the country, of visiting my family, of the lingering sense that my virus rendered me potentially deportable, that any roots I put down might be dug up suddenly one day - for fifteen years. The lifting of this threat - the sense that I now have a home I know will be secure for me and my husband - is indescribable.

And thank you, too, especially. Dish readers really helped - emailing your Senators and telling your stories. This blog can be really draining and a little exasperating. But the sense of support I've gotten these past few weeks has been amazing. It really is like family. And now you've made it possible to make an honest American out of me. Maybe you'll regret it soon enough.

But you're stuck with me now.

I'm gonna celebrate now, so no promises on the timing of my next post.

16 Jul 2008 07:28 pm

Yglesias Moves On

Marc writes:

On August 1, Matt Yglesias, our standard-setting Stalinist, is leaving The Atlantic for the Center for American Progress, where he'll blog and help CAP cement its place in the Democratic intellectual firmament. Matt is more skeptical than almost anyone I know, so while the CAP folks may think they're going to benefit from his prose, they're going to find that their arguments are a lot sharper, and more intellectually honest.

I'm really, really sad to see Matt go. He wants to be more committed to the causes he believes in than an independent journalist can be, and so I respect his decision. But it was a joy to work alongside him and I'll miss his quirky, funny, always razor-sharp take on the world.

16 Jul 2008 06:50 pm

Judge Judy Republicans, Ctd.

Wilkinson tears into GNP:

I can hardly stand “what our team needs to do” sorts of books. Pretty much all democratic partisan politics is irredeemably nationalist, and I really get tired of largely morally bogus debates about whether caring for poor people means we need to bribe people to get married or to move more money from really rich Americans to relatively rich but not-so-rich-for-Americans Americans, or both. America is a big, exclusive, mostly involuntary club. If you want to fight over which club members ought to get what benefits and pay what dues, then fine. Do that. But none of this really has much to do with caring about “the working class,” most members of which speak strange tongues and are not considered clubbable. Speaking of Marxism 101.

I fear that many of the decent ideas in the book are undermined by a Rovian agenda to bribe a demographic to vote Republican.

16 Jul 2008 06:34 pm