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All The Sad Old Bitter Men

  In fact, his only real genius may have been his ability to understand that if the right people want to think that you are a genius, they will give you the benefit of the doubt when deciding on which side of that line you fall. It is therefore far better to be weird and […]

Proposition 8

I don’t live in California anymore. I wised I did for 1 day so I could vote against this travesty. (As always) Lawrence Lessig sums it up well:

The (KKK)Rumps

Paul Krugman has an obvious point in his latest column…that the Republican Party will veer to the right after losing on Tuesday. Sadly, I’d also say that it seems likely. Too many of the people I’ve ‘debated’ about this election fall into the ‘rump’ category. Ah well.

He called it…

More NFL. Sadly, my beloved Dolphins lost a heartbreaker to the Texans on Sunday. Luckily, I knew one highlight that was coming in advance: Here’s SI’s Peter King from last week’s column: With the Wildcat in Miami, necessity was the mother of invention. The Dolphins had practiced the play but hadn’t used it in the […]

Impeachment

Bush broke more laws on some single days than some of his predecessorsdid in their entire terms in office. January 31, 2003, stands out in my mind. Thatwas when Bush met with British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the White Houseand proposed possible ways to provoke Saddam Hussein into an attack, whichincluded the painting of […]