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People are calling for Van Jones to resign, but Jay Bybee remains a federal judge with life tenure. Discuss.
Archive for the ‘The wayward press’ Category
September 4th, 2009
August 29th, 2009
Category: Health Care, The wayward press
Did Janet Hook and the Los Angeles Times just get completely spun, or are they on retainer from the RNC and the insurance industry? We ask, you decide.
August 14th, 2009
Why does Michael Vick have to go through a series of mea culpas and tearful apologies (not to mention a prison sentence) for torturing dogs, and Dick Cheney does not even face an investigation for torturing people?
August 2nd, 2009
Category: Democrats in Congress, Health Care, Law Notes, Politics and Leadership, The wayward press, Watching Conservatives
Republicans threaten that Democratic efforts to use budget reconciliation for health reform will make them “incensed” and will refuse to cooperate. In other news, Joseph Stalin has said “no more Mr. Nice Guy.” Besides, the GOP is wrong on the law.
July 21st, 2009
Doing something because it’s the right thing to do? I just don’t understand it.
June 29th, 2009
Category: The wayward press
Perhaps the most disturbing thing about the Pitney-Milbank debate is that Dana Milbank simply is unable to read the English language and relate it to his readers.
June 26th, 2009
Category: The wayward press
Today’s news: Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and John Bolton. Wonder why newspapers are going out of business?
June 15th, 2009
Category: The wayward press, Watching Conservatives
Marc Cooper tells you everything you need to know about Newt Gingrich — and the media that enables him.
May 9th, 2009
Lenore Skenazy, a writer not previously known to me, has captured my head and my heart. She understands statistics and risk, psychology, perception, and kids. She has her feet on the ground and her eyes open. Money quote from an interview in Slate (h/t Andrew Sullivan):
we’ve started to think of our kids as the [...]
April 30th, 2009
Our coblogger Bob Frank was interviewed…that’s not exactly the word I want here…on Fox Business News by a blowhard named Stuart Varney about his interesting ideas that luck matters in life in addition to brains, hard work, and the other Horatio Alger stuff (Alger’s heroes always had an amazing and consequential stroke of luck along [...]
