Krugman is on form today But what’s really happening to the plumbers of Ohio, and to working Americans in general? First of all, they aren’t making a lot of money. You may recall that in one of the early Democratic … Continue reading →

My daughter’s third grade class was having a civics lesson and the teacher explained that only citizens are allowed to vote. Then she asked how many of the kids’ parents were immigrants. Every hand went up except one.

Philip. Zimbardo talks about the Stanford Prison Experiment, the Milgram Experiment, Abu Ghraib and what it takes to be a hero. Horrifying and inspiring.

David Brooks says that Obama doesn’t need his audience’s love – but he gives it to him anyway. This was not evident back in the “fierce urgency of now” days, but it is now. And it is easy to sketch … Continue reading →

Rhapsody found me a new band to like today. Firewater. Borneo by Firewater They sound like a cross between The Pogues and Julio’s Bordello Googlie people.

John Stewart has been on form: More on McCain’s monster from Al-Jazeera:

Probably nothing right? Probably some fringe group – you certainly wouldn’t see it on the Sacramento Republicans’ website. Not now anyway, because they took it down. Or maybe they were just joking like the California Republicans who printed fliers with … Continue reading →

Andrew Sullivan uses Hitchens’s defection to the Obama camp as an excuse to repeat his own mea culpa over his early support for Bush and the invasion of Iraq. I don’t regret my support for the president after 9/11. In … Continue reading →

Another prominent conservative sees the light. Christopher Buckley endorsed Obama last week and endured the inevitable firestorm. Since my Obama endorsement, Kathleen and I have become BFFs and now trade incoming hate-mails. No one has yet suggested my dear old … Continue reading →

Rob Smyth, in The Guardian, blames Lampard and Gerrard for compromising England’s one world-class attacking talent. Scientists claim that Consciousness is the hard problem, but the Lampard and Gerrard problem is hard too. If we could find a decent goalkeeper … Continue reading →