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When I was in high school, one year while I was at some camp or another I was introduced to my roommate's copy of P.J. O'Rourke's Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People. I'm sure if I read it again today, much (seriously, much) older, familiar with P.J. O'Rourke's oeuvre and with a better … Continue reading modern weekly standard: a punditry book for idiots

Today's shorter Andrew Sullivan: "If non-racists refuse to take racist junk pseudo-science seriously, pretty soon the racist junk pseudo-science business will be totally run by racists. P.S. I am not a racist, some of my best friends, yadda yadda."

and you're not in it. Shorter Andrew Sullivan: "Sure, Jon Karl became a reporter via a program designed to plant conservative ideologues into the mainstream media, but there's no way he's a right-wing mole because Please. This FAIR report that clearly outlines Karl's ongoing pattern of right-wing hackery is obviously an attempt to pile on … Continue reading remember: there is a club…

Iraq: At least 34 people have been killed in series of bomb attacks across Iraq, several of which targeted mainly Shia districts of Baghdad, officials say. Eleven blasts in the space of an hour in the capital left 23 people dead and more than 100 others injured. Bomb attacks also killed at least 10 people … Continue reading how are things going in our great experiments in middle east intervention?

If your perspective of history is limited to the American experience, then I guess you'd be the kind of person who finds Ronald Reagan to be the king of #YOLO, or Richard Nixon to be #fierce. But for those of us who have a slightly broader scope, there's no question that Roman Emperor Caligula (d. … Continue reading caligula: emperor of #swag

Oliver Willis observes that, now that it serves Republican purposes to make the Benghazi/IRS/AP/whatever scandals ("scandals"?) sound really bad, suddenly they've decided that Richard Nixon is History's Greatest Monster, or at least he was until Obama came along: Because up until recently, the right had Nixon as the good guy. The original sin of the … Continue reading iran so far away

John McCain's interview on "This Week" yesterday was just crazy, at least the part about Syria. McCain is in some kind of full-blown psychopathic breakdown on Syria at this point; he doesn't know who's fighting, why it matters, why America should or shouldn't be involved, or how America could be involved, but he knows that … Continue reading someday a real rain will come

A different spin on the original. Last week Niall Ferguson said something stupid about John Maynard Keynes.  Asked to comment on Keynes’ famous observation “In the long run we are all dead,” Professor Ferguson demonstrated a complete misunderstanding of the observation, then suggested that Keynes was perhaps indifferent to the long run because he had … Continue reading Bigot is as bigot does

Martina Navratilova is usually considered the greatest women's tennis player of all time, but couldn't you make a pretty strong argument that she's the greatest tennis player of all time, period? She won more Grand Slam titles than anybody, career Grand Slams (winning each of the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US … Continue reading Why, exactly, does PolitiFact exist?