that we were ridiculing yesterday becomes a little clearer. Cuz, y’know, everybody likes a little conspiracy. 

So read the subject line of an email to the parents of all the kids in my daughter’s class, regarding a play they’re performing.   I responded: “Yo!  Way to go, Caesar!” No response.  Philistines. 

1) “the depredations of revisionist historians”    2) “inexplicably published by a mainstream house”    3) “Goldberg, who has no credentials beyond the right-wing nepotism that has enabled his career as a pundit”  

When is it way out of bounds to make fun of someone’s untimely death? When it’s homophobic.  This, on the other hand, is truly f*cked. Andrew jumps eigenstadt. Advice to Andrew: Lay off the photons, man.

For all of buzz generated by the New York Times story about Mitt Romney being disliked by his GOP rivals for the presidential nomination (even here), it is a story that raises one of my favorite questions: “So what?”  It is far more relevant to consider whether a candidate is liked by voters, and the degree to which being liked by voters matters.  A good way to start that analysis is to

Seems Jonah Goldberg’s new book, Liberal Fascism, has come under a concentrated attack from David Neiwert, last seen here arguing to redefine masculinity along essentially partisan political lines (though naturally, and in keeping with what is his nearly inveterate dogmatism, he missed the thrust of his own analysis). I haven’t yet read Jonah’s book, though the excerpts I’ve read seem diligently researched and forcefully argued — which, ironically, were we

starring Peng Dehuai

Pat Riotic sends me this interesting item: A 20-year-old female corrections officer is facing sex assault charges for allegedly performing oral sex on a male inmate on New Year’s Eve in an Oklahoma jail. Billie Pelley told investigators that she entered inmate Bobby Mann’s cell and began kissing the 37-year-old inmate “for a while.” She then advanced to servicing Mann, but “stopped after thinking about what she was doing” .

NYT:  At the end of the Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire this month, when the Democrats joined the candidates on stage, Mitt Romney found himself momentarily alone as his counterparts mingled, looking around a bit stiffly for a companion.   The moment was emblematic of a broader reality that has helped shape the Republican contest and could take center stage again on Thursday at a debate in Florida. Within

The Louisiana caucus may be so meaningless to the GOP nomination that the Associated Press apparently skipped it.  At the moment, it does not appear on the map at CNN’s Election Center, either.  But AFP covered it — and got the results wrong: Senator John McCain has won the Republican party’s caucuses in Louisiana while longshot candidate Ron Paul took second place, the state party said Wednesday, citing preliminary results. In reality: Sen. John