Ex-roomie Chuck Karczag is bloggin’ the election from South Carolina over at TNR’s election blog.

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A sight quibble with my esteemed colleague Brian on the logic of abstention from voting. (I should note that I’m staying home as well, though because D.C. is so absurdly safe for Kerry, more than out of any general objection to voting.) After running through the familiar argument that the chances of your vote actually […]

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I can’t believe I didn’t find this until today: Republican Phone Sex.

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Slate’s election scorecard is still headlined “If the election were held today.”

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Listen Missy has pictures from this weekend’s Halloween party. Update: Roomie Tim has some photos as well.

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So, I wore this costume to an AFF Happy Hour the other night: I was a little surprised by the number of people who recognized it. Maybe I’ll keep it around after Halloween for a little occasional crimefighting.

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Someone could probably start a full-time blog just calling bullshit on instances of Dowdification. For instance, we’ve got a new stump speech talking point from Bush today that’s been making the rounds: Now my opponent is throwing out the wild claim that he knows where bin Laden was in the fall of 2001 — and […]

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In preparation for a talk I’m giving in December, I began reading Benjamin Barber’s Jihad vs. McWorld, the first lengthy work of Barbers I’ve picked up since slogging through a farrago called Strong Democracy four or five years ago. Barber’s got a certain stylistic flair; I can see why the book enjoyed such wide popular […]

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Much as I normally hate to see friends fight, it was gratifying to read Radley Balko’s rather pointed response to a post in which Matt Yglesias speculates about the motives behind libertarian organizations like Cato’s support for partial privatization of Social Security, mostly because such charges seem fairly common and because, at least with respect […]

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My reaction to the post-debate polls is a big fat jigga-wha? I watched the final face-off with a bunch of D.C. friends, many of them ex-debaters, many of them quite liberal. Everyone thought Bush won decisively. But the polls are showing that people thought Kerry won, and the margin in some of these polls is […]

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