Hot column action at Mediaite from resident neo-con Noah C. Rothman. Let's check in... Rand Paul Shatters Democratic Monopoly On Romance And Captures The Hearts Of The Young Voter Wow, that's what you're going with as a headline? Suddenly my title for this piece, "mediate columnist writes about rand paul filibuster," seems so lame. Hang … Continue reading Noah Rothman brutally shreds the meadows of time, fences with the love that dare not speak its name

BBC's "Newsnight" did a special last Tuesday on the Iraq War after 10 years that included an interview with Cabana Boy Tony Blair. It's a remarkable interview for a couple of reasons; give it a watch: The second part of the interview is longer, but also worth watching, and can be found here. First of … Continue reading You’re every breath that I take, you’re every step I make

Of all the good decisions the Rooney family has made over the years as owners of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and they've made many, one of the best has to have been the decision to hire Bill Cowher over Dave Wannstedt to replace the retiring Chuck Noll in 1992. Both were Pittsburgh natives and wound up … Continue reading dave wannstedt is s-m-r-t

I would like to direct your attention to the fact that Turkmenistan is awesome in every way. It is the greatest of the former Soviet Republics because it has "Turk" and "men" right there in the name, so you know you are getting Turks who are men and that is something you can't put a … Continue reading turkmenistan is a wonderful country and very free and happy, because why not?

Intrepid Truth Vigilante Andrea Mitchell hosted intrepid Director of the National Economic Council, Gene Sperling, earlier today to press him on Republican and Villager concerns that President Obama's SOTU ideas for letting the Poors have a little extra cake might cause History's Greatest Evil, the National Debt That Nobody Actually Cares About, to asplode and … Continue reading andrea mitchell is s-m-r-t

This whole horse meat scandal in the UK made me ask two questions: Couldn't anybody tell? Didn't anybody throw up? I grew up in a house where we ate pretty basically, not because of finances but because my dad had (still has) a fairly small range of food that he's willing to eat. We never … Continue reading horse: it’s what’s for dinner?

With my post titles now being shamelessly copied, another question for drone supporters occurs to me: Our current policy under the AUMF is effectively that the President is authorized to attack anyone, anywhere, anytime, as long as some tenuous connection to al-Qaeda can be made. If, instead of drone strikes, our method of attack was … Continue reading and on and on

Oliver Willis, whose writing I respect quite a bit, wrote a piece today that I disagreed with, on the justification for our use of drones in going after elements of al-Qaeda around the world. We had, I think, a civil discussion about it on Twitter afterward, and it left me with some questions for those … Continue reading droning on and on

With the news that their hotly anticipated vaguely mentioned signing of Francisco Liriano is nigh upon us, I think it’s safe to say that Pirates pitchers will be well-represented in the 2007 NL Cy Young race.

We live in an age of hoaxes, conspiracy theories, fake news...call it what you want, the upshot is that there are a lot of people out there making things up and a lot more people believing those phony stories. But while Western Europeans in the 1100s were just beginning to seriously encounter the world outside … Continue reading Prester John