A plain blog about politics

Happy Birthday to Stu Tate , 51. His cup of coffee was in 1989, age 27. He had 18 remaining professional innings (in AAA in 1991). Pitching ...

Happy Birthday to Jamie Bamber , 40. Right to the good stuff...yeah, last night was the first west coast night game of the season, and so ...

Not much question here, right? Libya and Japan. Beyond that, well, the other events in the Middle East. By the way...if I had to guess -- ...

As I said in my speech reaction post, I don't think the tepid endorsement of the bill formerly known as energy/climate really matters ve...

OK, first of all, I only listened to it on the radio.  I can report that my impressions were about the same as (from what I can tell) everyo...

(Updated Below) I'm going to take issue with Joshua Green's complaint about the climate/energy bill and recent disasters in the G...

Ezra Klein's reporting agrees with the logic that I set out after the Finance Committee votes on public option amendments yesterday: it...

Plenty of new readers, so I'll add the explanation that this is a continuing item about stories that haven't been in the news, and a...