Because I've seen some commenters about Left Blogistan remarking that Givhan was a fine writer deserving of her 2006 Pulitzer for social-commentary-via-fashion-policing* before this recent lapsus calami, I decided I'd better pull out and post some of the most exemplary quotes from the hatchet job she did on Kerry in 2006:

Even Kerry's arrival in ( Read more... )

Friday morning on the way into work I heard part of one of those NPR talk-show programs that manages to annoy you for the rest of the day and then some, long after you've stopped shouting "Twaddle!" at the radio. For me, specifically, this tends to happen a) when they talk about lit, b) when logic comes into it, c) when history is invoked to ( Read more... )