Atrios has a bulleted policy list for Democrats.
Undo the bankruptcy bill enacted by this administration
Repeal the estate tax repeal
Increase the minimum wage and index it to the CPI
Universal health care (obviously the devil is in the details on this one)
Increase CAFE standards. Some other environment-related regulation
Pro-reproductive rights, getting rid of abstinence-only education, improving education […]
in Slate, Dahlia Lithwick has some fun.
Should Anna Nicole get a new reality show?
The court finds itself divided on this matter. A plurality of its members, led by Justice Kennedy, finds that it is not within the ambit of the decorum, deference, etiquette, or good taste befitting a former Playboy bunny to nationally televise […]
I have never met James Wolcott, but I have been reading his column for a while. I got the pointer to that London Review of Books article from him. He can turn a funny phrase. See James Wolcott: When Blondes Collide
Harvey C. Mansfield has written a book called Manliness and Deborah Solomon has a quick hitter interview with him in the New York Times where he says:
Lynne Cheney is kind of manly, too.
Brad DeLong puts paid on Andrew Sullivan.
Yes, Andrew Sullivan Is Still a Mendacious Dork
Blog alert: The Reality-Based Community uses the quip from Patrick Moynihan in its masthead.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Check them out.
Suzanne Nossel over at Democracy Arsenal:
The only thing worse than Iraq as a failed state is Iraq as a failed state with 130,000 Americans living there.
James Wolcott is a must read. He writes about the recent push toward civil war in Iraq.
Poor President Bush, prince of fools. He let the neoconservative creative destructors play upon his religiosity (and Cheney’s power hunger) and persuade him that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein would be a transformative moment that would set democracy […]
DarkSyde, writing at Kos tells the tale of intelligent design. Here is his wrap up:
All that matters is market share.
Read the whole article to see what it means.
I recently discovered slacktivist. It’s a good blog.