Unqualified Offerings

In addition to everything Greenwald says (do not adjust your newsreader! this is not a Mona post!) about "New Republic Syndrome," one passage of Jonathan Chait’s 2006 imprecation against the "Dump Lieberman" movement:
These are exactly the sorts of fanatics who tore the party apart in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They think in simple [...]

My recent things at The Art of the Possible:

A brief discussion of George Will’s review of Nudge.
My puzzlement about the toljaso impulse of a latterly pro-Hillary blog reacting to Barack Obama’s qualified endorsement of the FISA "compromise." (Do see the response comment by the original blogger in the comment thread to my post.)
Fun with headlines [...]

Some "local foodshed" links for you!
Eat Wild is a clearinghouse for grass-fed meat production. (It’s not about hunting and gathering.) I found their Maryland producers page first – haven’t been through the rest of the site yet.
We were all talking Michael Pollan the other day. On Mother Jones’s website, you can read his account of [...]

By Thoreau
At least somebody is standing up for the pro-cookie agenda.

By Thoreau
Recently I observed that the new SAT is longer than the old one but no more predictive.  Well, now they’ve decided to further dilute whatever utility it may have:  Colleges will only see your best scores.

The Star Wars Crawl is already gone.
Tony Soprano is fucking dead. (Long. Via Sean Collins.)
In comments downblog, Dave W. points out that you too can hear the entire new Hold Steady album, Stay Positive, on iMeem, all legal-like.

 By Mona

George Carlin has died.