I'm embarrassed to admit I haven't paid much attention to American Idol this season. For those who stayed with it every second and are now scrolling through my uninformed ramblings to get to a post on lost Bush administration away messages, I'm sorry. My excuse for not watching much is...

Cohen, you old card! Or should I say curmudgeon?

Wonkette was hilarious and dismissive of Cohen's column (today, again) on the Colbert Nation. As Peter Daou has already pointed out, though, its argument that e-mail facilitates populist anger deserves some more attention. Is the message...

If you want to know the facts about press coverage of the Harvard plagiarism scandal, go to Philip Weiss's excellent post trumpeting the Harvard Crimson's tireless coverage over limper entries from the New York Times. (My apologies to Mr. Weiss for the similarity in wording: Let's just say...

This weekend's op-ed pages saw the first of what could be a slew of reassessments of the recent "Save the Males" campaign. A Washington Post "Outlook" article fretted over "the myth of the "boys' crisis," and Jill Abramson reminded us in the New York Times that the "