A friend tipped me off to a story about cassoulet , the great southwestern French dish, in Slate , by Katherine Lanpher. The piece is pretty well inf…
Read moreSorry, I just had to get that out of my system. But how else to respond to the protests of Republicans , who have banded together to try to defeat ev…
Read moreAs we all know by now, the Bush administration lied the United States into a war of choice in Iraq. Many Americans were hoodwinked into believing the…
Read moreThe Los Angeles Times Opinion page today carries a must-read piece by former Times staffer Allan Jalon about a smear the paper printed back in 197…
Read moreTalking Points Memo does us the service of reproducing Madoff's statement to the court after pleading guilty to investment fraud. It's worth…
Read moreIt looks like Madoff has a good chance of being sentenced to the slammer for what will probably end up being the rest of his life tomorrow. At least,…
Read moreAccording to today's Los Angeles Times : The Department of Managed Health Care declines to require carriers to pay for applied behavior analysis…
Read moreHumans are mental time travelers: We remember what we thought and felt in the past, and we anticipate what we might be thinking and feeling in the fu…
Read moreI think I have a pretty good idea about who is going to win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism this year. That would be Gene Weingarten, whose story a…
Read moreI see that the Vatican has endorsed the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a 9-year-old girl who had an abortion in Brazil after being rap…
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