Author: Freddie

quote for the day

“When David Souter retired, the political class put on an amusing dress rehearsal of the first year of the Obama presidency: Obama did something expected and fairly moderate, and the Republican opposition responded with...

coining a term

Forgive me if someone has already coined a superior term for this. rollover– The kind of hangover that comes and goes in a wave-like pattern over the course of the day, lulling you into...

note

So– Conor Clarke has written to me to suggest that I have misrepresented him here. (And misspelled his name.) The offending post is here, and the offending line is, “both sides have crazies, and...

Glenn Greenwald

is entirely right, and on the occasion of his post, I say again that the culturally and socially liberal leanings of many reporters cannot begin to overwhelm the reflexive, self-congratulatory political anti-leftism of the...

quote of the day

from Gregg Easterbrook: “While the fixed vote in Iran received extensive international attention, the world paid no notice to an honest election in Indonesia — the world’s largest Muslim nation. As recently as the...