Media Matters is having quite the Wonkette-esque week. First, they obsessed about obsessing over breasts.* Now: gay porn. Even better: Republican gay porn. No, wait for it, it gets better: Republican gay porn star and possible crook who was recently held out to be a paragon of virtue. It would be difficult to make up [...]

On NPR’s Diane Rehm Show this morning, Joe Biden–the struggling presidential candidate who also happens to be Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee–said Barack Obama is “naive” in declaring he might order military strikes in Pakistan: “In order to look tough, he’s undermined his ability to be tough, were he President. Because if you’re [...]

In which the future of the Democratic Leadership Council is discussed. Interesting sidelight: While Bill Clinton spoke, and was his usual compelling self, at the DLC convention, the guy who really lit up the crowd was Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, who delivered his usual–brilliant–alternative energy pitch. I’ve heard him do it four or five times [...]

Matt Yglesias makes some interesting arguments, as always, in this LA Times op-ed. The foreign policy priesthood has certainly wobbled from wrong to incoherent on the war–and the embarrassing squirmings of Michael O’Hanlon in an attempt to respond to criticisms that I and others made don’t help much. This part is especially painful: “Ultimately, politics [...]