What about doctors and hospitals raking in cash as well? If even this populist firebrand can't bring himself to take on the real problem, i.e. inefficient doctors and hospitals, then what hope do we have?

The comments just goes to show how much Broadsheet is NOT doing for feminism. The default position of many readers is that they're over-reacting and being shrill, even when they have a good point. The New Republic article was "journalism" at its worts. Littered with anonymous quotes the author doesn't even pretend to verify, it's just poor.

But RT doesn't help her case by failing to quote the single most ridiculous paragraph in the article when Rosen admits: "I haven't read enough of Sotomayor's opinions to have a confident sense of them, nor have I talked to enough of Sotomayor's detractors and supporters, to get a fully balanced picture of her strengths."

Excuse me? The guy writing about how intellectually inferior she is hasn't bothered to read her opinions? If RT weren't so busy beating the feminism drum, maybe she would have seen this and written a good critique.

So he's wrong? Looks like pretty cogent analysis to me, even if it does come off like sour grapes.

The moment is completely different. Obama is the only Democrat who recognizes that HE'S the one acting from power. We're so used to acting like beaten puppies that we don't see genuine strength from one of our own when it happens.

Obama has 59 senators, a huge majority in Congress. He's acting like a Mafia Godfather who throws out a useless crumb to a broken enemy to placate him!

In no way are the circumstances similar to the weak triangulation Clinton engaged in. Of course the Republicans aren't done trying to sabotage things, but look at them! They thought ending the capital gains tax was the way out of the financial crisis. Why are we still so afraid of these people???

All that matters is the results. I personally think Obama is more cold-blooded than most and is doing this to get as much as possible out of the Republicans and make them afraid to go nuclear on him. Going nuclear only works if there's a plausibility to the attacks. Obama is not Clinton. There is no sheen of sleaze with him at all. Republicans going nuclear on him will only hurt themselves and make themselves irrelevant.

In temperment and discipline, Obama's administration (like his campaign) will be more like Bush's than Clinton's. Let's not forget that Bush was one of the most effective president's we've ever had. We need that kind of effectiveness pushing our agenda. Stuff like this is window dressing to distract everybody while Obama pushes through a strong progressive agenda (I hope).

but Wall-E has some of the most magical moments I've ever scene at the movies. The movie as a whole isn't better than very good, but moments of it are spectacular.

It was only 10 years ago that black quarterbacks were still viewed almost completely as athletes and were not to be fully trusted. This was the best parallel I could see to sports having an impact. Black quarterbacks are becoming so commonplace it just isn't that interesting or different anymore. It was definitely the final frontier for black men in sports.

I can't help but think that the success of McNabb and other black quarterbacks known as much for their decision making as their fleetness of foot had some small contribution to this victory.

Joan, your approach to Palin is the soft bigotry of low expectations. Ignore the fact that she's a woman, it doesn't change the fact that she's a diva who thinks the normal rules of the world don't apply to her. It has nothing to do with her gender (though the fact that she appears to have exploited her looks to a staggering degree to get where she is today should irk any feminist), it has to do with who she is. Welcome to post-feminism, when we are free to call someone a crazy-diva-whackjob even if that person is a woman and not have to fear that we'll be labeled sexist for doing so!

I guess only Latin/Greek poetry nerds are familiar with the term. It was important to know all this crap for the AP exam.

I loved the Mets broadcasting team in the late '80s. I was 9 when they won the '86 series. Tim McCarver, Ralph Kiner, and Steve Zabriski made up my all-time favorite announcing team. I don't know if I was just a kid and couldn't tell the difference, but I always thought they were funny and engaging and really liked each other and called a great game.

Now McCarver is insufferable. I don't know what changed.

Side note: I also loved Bill White and Phil Rizzuto on WPIX, and I know they were awesome.

Keith Olbermann is a complete partisan hack compared to Rachel Maddow. She is the pundit equivalent to Barack Obama. She puts her faith in the idea that people are smart enough to listen to a real argument with actual facts. And holy shit, it turns out she's right! Her show is 100 times better than Olbermann's.

That's literally all I can think after reading this post. She has to be reckoned with on energy policy only because it's clear it's the only issue that actually excites her. The fact that she spewed nothing but false statements and ignorant platitutes about energy last night means she's not for real. Give me a break, I really expected a lot more out of this blog than to read this crap.