Bite me is the thing that you must do: Perhaps we should peel away the rhetoric of victimhood, used so indecently, and look at what’s actually being demanded here: A right not to hear that one is being irrational, dishonest or mortifyingly stupid, regardless of just how irrational, dishonest or mortifyingly stupid one actually is. That’s a license of no small magnitude, and one that a person of good faith would

Literally.  Perfunction has the video. (h/t The Perfesser.)

The New York Times editorializes on the ongoing effort to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: For more than two years now, Congress, the news media, current and former national security officials, think tanks and academic institutions have been engaged in a profound debate over how to modernize the law governing electronic spying to keep pace with technology. We keep hoping President Bush will join in. Instead, the president offers

It is not schadenfreude, but sheer amusement at political cowardice, which causes me to recommend Sunday’s New York Times survey of Democratic superdelegates, who are growing increasingly nervous about the risks of a prolonged fight between Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama: Over all, the interviews with these influential Democrats presents a portrait of a particularly exclusive political community in flux, looking for an exit strategy and hoping they will be relieved of

of the forces of division are multiplying again! “Herakles beats the living crap out of the worm of divisiness.”

grew up in the concrete jungle of South L.A., where she dealt drugs and saw her foster brother shot to death in front of their house. It’s a sad and all-too-common tale.  By lying to us, she’s deprived us of the essential truth of her story. 

In the comments to this morning’s post on Hillary Clinton’s fundraisers asking the DNC for their money back, folks noted that pro-Clinton bloggers are boycotting the Daily Kos.  At the NYT’s Caucus blog, Sarah Wheaton rounds up reax to the announcement, adding: “If the rift lingers after the primaries, the organizational value of the blogs could be compromised.”  A track record of seven winners to 12 losers never convinced me of

In a week marked by enunciations of extraordinary stupidity, this takes the prize:  Seymour Hersh, the journalist who exposed the massacre, said he sees parallels between My Lai and a more recent story that he has he reported on, the 2005 images of torture from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. But he says the public furor unleashed by My Lai was far greater. “It’s stunning how much impact My Lai had

Hillary backers recognize Olbermann for hypocritical and sanctimonious douchebaggery. Correction: I’m not even sure about the Hillary backing.  It seems the Donklephant may simply be anti-mendoucheous. Obama squirms, wriggles on television To be fair, I kind of like Cass Sunstein, who really likes Obama

May be hazardous to libs. Since I arrived here last August, I have been struck by four things: the financial commitment we have made to reconstruction; the precipitous decline in violence; the inklings of representative government; and the small yet significant progress in communal relations between the mostly Shiite Iraqi army and the predominantly Sunni residents of this area. One often reads of the chaos plaguing Iraq. Yet the media