AmSpec Blog strikes me as excessively charitable toward Alberto Gonzales even in the midst of a call for his resignation: I kept an ear on his testimony most of the day yesterday, and noted that he seemed clueless but honest. Reading further accounts in sources from across the political spectrum this morning leads me to […]

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There’s been a fair amount of handwringing over news stations’ decisions to broadcast America’s Craziest Home Videos, and my first impulse is to regard it as largely moot: Cho could just as easily have uploaded his rambling screed to a dozen video-hosting sites the morning of his planned massacre, tagged only with a keyword like […]

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So I assume this is self-evident to anyone who routinely avails themeselves of the Internets, which is, by definition, pretty much everyone reading this, but: One of the reasons the Net is so lethal to productivity seems to be the way it facilitates modular procrastination. That is, it used to be that if you were […]

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D’Souza (v.): To make an argument so patently vulgar, obtuse, and offensive that even people generally disposed to agree with you are collectively revulsed. Megan notices that the guy who brought us the insight that Britney Spears caused 9/11 is welcoming the opportunity afforded by the VA Tech shooting to attack… atheists. Atheists? Yep: Notice […]

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Continuing his long-running attack on free trade, William Greider has a new piece in The Nation touting a seven-year-old book by Ralph Gomory and William Baumol, which Greider claims had “languished in academic obscurity”until “recently,” which seems like a slight stretch given that Chuck Schumer and Paul Craig Roberts were essentially touting Baumol & Gomory’s […]

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It’s an article of faith in social conservative circles that unilateral divorce has been a disaster, precipitating the collapse of the American family. Tyler Cowen begs to differ in today’s New York Times. Citing

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Scott Lemieux observes that (contra what many suggest) there’s no reason to expect Supreme Court decisions weakening Roe to simply “throw it back to the states”—as the very law at issue in the recent ruling demonstrates pretty clearly. Because, as we all know, terminating a pregnancy, like growing pot for personal use in your backyard, […]

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Plenty of folk more qualified to comment are already all over today’s Supreme Court decision upholding a 2003 band on D&X abortions, but a couple things struck me. First, the Court accepts at face value Congress’ (apparently false) finding that D&X is never “medically necessary,” which is why the court let the law stand even […]

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I’m glad that various leftish writers are condemning the Family Research Council’s absurd suggestion that the recent study showing the ineffectiveness of abstinence education just proves the need to pour more money and resources into abstinence programs. I can now rest assured that I’ll never hear them making that kind of argument the next time […]

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Hat Tip: Laure. More Alexyss Tylor at her website and MySpace page. Bonus fact: The older woman sitting there during this little monologue? Her mom. Addendum: Hm, Ms. Tylor appears to have gotten the clip pulled from YouTube… rather inexplicably, since to judge by the Technorati curve over the last couple days, it was rapidly […]

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