Catherine is right about this, tragically: I would be happy to go to NYC on a semi-regular basis and never leave Red Hook. People, THEY HAVE AN IKEA RIGHT THERE! And also, several great bars, and adorable residential sections, and a tight-knit community that reminds me a lot of Bloomingdale. I’m not such an apologist [...]

Via Amanda Terkel, Sarah Palin objected to the forthcoming KSM trial thusly: The trial will afford Mohammed the opportunity to grandstand and make use of his time in front of the world media to rally his disgusting terrorist cohorts. It will also be an insult to the victims of 9/11, as Mohammed will no doubt [...]

From the New York Times‘ careful new piece on Nidal Hasan: Some experts on terrorism believe that Major Hasan may be the latest example of an increasingly common type of terrorist, one who has been self-radicalized with the help of the Internet and who wreaks havoc without support from overseas networks and without having to [...]

First: thanks to M. LeBlanc and Ned and Jamelle. I couldn’t have asked for a greater platoon of pinchhitters. I’m not even being parochial. The Atlantic Wire commended M’s eloquent post about the pending trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Now: Eli Lake’s piece about Trita Parsi and the National Iranian-American Council. I say this as [...]

Last month, Spencer covered one of the worst instances of advice-giving ever to grace the pages of the internet. Chick gets fucked over by her friends, and columnist basically says “get over it, and don’t expect people not to be assholes unless they’re boning you or related to you.” Well, now another delightful advice-giver, Lesley [...]

In the midst of going gangbusters on the Democratic leadership for sacrificing women’s reproductive health to political expediency, Katha Pollitt makes a point that I wish were made more often: President Obama, too, worries about the deficit. Maybe you could help him out by sacrificing your denomination’s tax exemption. The Catholic Church would be a [...]

I’m guessing I’m not the only Whedonologist who reads this blog on a regular basis, so no doubt at least a handful of you are mourning the recent cancellation of Dollhouse. Alyssa Rosenberg echoes my own sentiments pretty closely: I’m sorry Dollhouse is dead.  But I’m not sure its cancellation warrants the same outrage as [...]

I wanna build on Jamelle’s post about Catholic Charities’ unveiled threat to the District of Columbia that it will throw a thoroughly un-Jesus-like temper tantrum if the District passes the almost-certain-to-pass same-sex marriage bill that’s currently before it. Apparently the source of their anger is that that if DC passes the bill, Catholic Charities will [...]

In the wake of last week’s elections and the flurry of “conventional wisdom” (read: warmed-over bullshit) declaring that the Democrats are “in trouble,” the White House is worried about its political prospects and has taken to debating whether or not it will pursue deficit reduction as a political strategy: On the political side, Obama can [...]

Apparently, the Catholic Church cares more about spiting gay people than it does about fulfilling the biblical command to serve the needy: The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn’t change a proposed same-sex marriage law, [...]