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The hunt itself is clearly American national security policy. Dick Cheney is Dick Cheney. The ranch spokeswoman immediately implying that the accident was the victim’s responsibility is the right wing punditsphere. The quail don’t make very imposing “monsters to destroy,” but neither do Hugo Chavez or Al-Jazeera. As for Cheney’s fellow hunter . . . [...]

Yglesias goes to a basketball game:
One of the weirder features of live Wizards games is that home team three pointers are sponsored by Pepco, our local energy company. I don’t quite understand what’s going on here. Are people supposed to leave the stadium thinking, “man, I hear good things about this electricity stuff, we should [...]

Over at The Non-Republic, Peter Beinart works himself into a lather about hypocrisies in the Bush Administration’s approach to “democracy promotion.” We are deep into the territory of the narcissism of small differences here: Bush and Beinart both want: to rule the world; to have a lot of wars in the process. So what Beinart [...]