She’s having server trouble, so you can temporarily find her at http://janegalt.wordpress.com/

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So, Chris Hitchens was just on Hannity and Colmes debating the legacy of Jerry Falwell with Ralph Reed and the hosts. Predictably, Reed and (especially) Hannity were not so much concerned with the substance of Hitchens’ scathing attack on the late rev than with its impropriety, its insensitivity to Falwell’s family and loved ones, and […]

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This ThinkProgress post is just odd. It asserts that Bob Novak wants to distract our attention from how it’s “a failing on President Bush’s part to have staffed his administration with “subpar people he brought up from Texas” to positions far above their competence levels. His crafty means of diverting attention from this fact? Going […]

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Speaking of coercion… is that you, Yglesias? The fact of the matter is that older teens are adults and that the essence of adulthood is being put in a position to make decisions – even bad decisions. To be in a position where one has to rely on advice from one’s friends and family rather […]

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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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Verbal Hyperlinks: “Matt Yglesias’ little brother” — “BloggingHeads.TV” — “natural language” Addendum: Ech. Another argument against vlogging: I don’t have professional makeup and lighting people on hand.

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“Debate Exposes Doubt“? “Nobody Summons Megachurches“? Oh, snap! That last one especially is as clear a glove-slap as you can get: Suderman is gunning for Dave Weigel’s ironic/semiobscure-hipster-popcult-reference-headline crown. Better get crackin’ W; you’re like half a Magnetic Fields pun away from letting H&R get outhepped by the scions of Bill Buckley.

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An Egyptian appeals court has upheld the jailed blogger’s four year sentence. Now supporters seem to be pinning their hopes on a presidential pardon. That’d have a certain poetry, as one of the charges against Kareem Amer, accounting for one year of his sentence, was calling Hosni Mubarak a “symbol of tyranny.”

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Back in 2003, The Wall Street Journal described Ann Coulter as “the Maureen Dowd of conservatives.” (I’m pretty sure I coined the abbreviation MoDoCon, which increasingly seems far too mild for Coulter, except that I expect it’d piss her off more than any other epithet one might pick.) Now, via Mother Jones, I see The […]

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The video below shows Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer being hauled off to prison; you can hear what observers say is Kareem being struck and crying out about halfway through.

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