Unqualified Offerings

Paid 35 cents for a dead-tree copy of the Post this morning at breakfast to see what there was about Chris Dodd’s hold on the FISA bill. Answer: nothing. In the Washington Post’s Washington, this event isn’t really happening. Nothing on the front page. Nothing in the interior. The online Post carried a wire report [...]

After a listen-and-a-half, I’m chagrined on multiple levels to report that Pitchfork is not really wrong about the brand new Steve Earle record. (Level One: Sad the record is not good. Level Two: Sad that Pitchfork agrees. Level Three: Rue that Pitchfork isn’t just generally correct, but is correct in its bill of particulars.) There [...]

By Mona
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Rudy Giuliani is a stalwart defender of the sanctity of marriage — the veritable Churchill of it — and some on the religious right are coming to see that this is so, even if Rudy needs to pound the table more spectacularly and often about the homo threat to [...]

Yesterday, as with every other day, Kevin Drum was exactly two years older than I. I don’t expect that to change. Happy Birthday, Kevin! I only hope that when I’m 49, I look as much better than you do then as I do now. Doh!
(And a big shoutout to failed Maryland Senate candidate Michael Steele, [...]