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Byrd out, Inouye in.
Byrd resigns his chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee because at 90 he is too frail and senile to do the work required in this momentous term. Very well. But replacing him is Senator Inouye,… more →
The Enlightened Despot
Byrd out, Inouye in.
wrote 1 year ago: Byrd resigns his chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee because at 90 he is too frail and seni … more →
Let's get scared!
wrote 1 year ago: … is the name of a feature on Harry Shearer’s Le Show which I will appropriate here to b … more →
Breaking news update
wrote 1 year ago: Dana Perino is, well, actually kind of less hot the last few days. She has been looking weary. As … more →
A story in photogaffes and the lack of them
wrote 1 year ago: This blog cares about how people look. Well, I care. You’d have to ask Akhbar himself. I ca … more →
More of Ruffini being execrably wrong
wrote 1 year ago: Who else remembers this Ruffini gem written at the time of the bailout, in which he argued that Hous … more →
'Haiku Pundit' explains the Republican position on taxes
wrote 1 year ago: Conservative poetblogger Haiku Pundit explains Republican tax policy in 34 syllables: Raising taxes … more →
Prediction Wars: Drum vs. Ambinder
wrote 1 year ago: Kevin Drum made a prediction a few days back: Apropos of nothing in particular, I want to go on the … more →
Voter fraud vs. voter suppression
wrote 1 year ago: Matthew Yglesias, second best liberal blogger on the internet, is the person who first made this arg … more →
Andrew Sullivan being right, then wrong.
wrote 1 year ago: Andrew Sullivan has a very interesting post that starts out sensibly and veers off into the impossib … more →
Internal Polling
wrote 1 year ago: Yuval Levin, Corner luminary, puts up a post about internal McCain polling: The Wall Street Journal … more →
Ah, the English
wrote 1 year ago: This is an actual quote from an Englishman liveblogging a cricket match. Read the whole thing … more →
D&D, politics.
wrote 1 year ago: From somehedgehog – the campaign as D&D. GM: OK, the bugbear attacks you. What do you do … more →
Standard Operating Procedure
wrote 1 year ago: Quite the film. … more →
Black people like Barrack Obaba
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wrote 1 year ago: And Nate Silver links to the graph that proves it: … more →
Why we make fun of Yglesias
wrote 1 year ago: It’s important to clarify why we have a feature called ‘Yglesias being wrong’. It … more →
Yglesias Being Wrong: It's Back!
wrote 1 year ago: By popular demand, the return of popular Enlightened Despot feature ‘Yglesias being wrong … more →
McCain's honor
wrote 1 year ago: Count me among those who lament the passing of McCain’s honor and reputation. Many people hav … more →
Patrick Ruffini
wrote 1 year ago: Patrick Ruffini is oddly considered a mad young genius in the conservative blogosphere. Oddly, I wr … more →
The probability that your vote will be decisive
wrote 1 year ago: Is very, very small. … more →
