Amy Sullivan

HUCKAWHO?….If you’re still wondering who Mike Huckabee is and whether he really could be the Republican dark horse candidate for 2008, you’ll want to read this profile by the Arkansas Times’ Warwick Sabin. My favorite quote: Huckabee?s most notable disadvantage is that he is relatively unknown outside of Arkansas, unlike some of the other possible […]

BASKETBLOGGING, PISTONS EDITION….As we head into my three favorite weeks of the year, a brief comment on the NBA. Matt Yglesias thinks that Eastern Conference teams would prefer an early playoff match-up against New Jersey and then Miami instead of Cleveland, followed by Detroit. After watching the Wizards blow out my hometown Detroit Pistons by […]

POINTLESS PROGNOSTICATION….‘Tis the weekend, apparently, for spouting off about who the eventual GOP nominee will be in 2008. I usually try to abstain from this things, mostly because: a) I don’t know, and b) I don’t think anyone else knows. Still, the idea that “Huckabee, Hagel, Brownback, and Graham” (Graham? Lindsay Graham??) are the guys […]

O’CONNOR SMACKS DOWN REPUBLICANS….Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor gave a speech yesterday at Georgetown in which she slammed Republicans–singling out Tom DeLay and John Cornyn–for undermining the judiciary. (You can listen to NPR coverage of the speech here.) She quoted DeLay’s attacks on the court during Justice Sunday, and then turned on the […]

CHRISTIAN CHARITY….This story hasn’t gotten a ton of attention, but on Ash Wednesday last week, LA’s Cardinal Mahoney declared that if Congress passes legislation to criminalize the act of offering support to an illegal immigrant, he will instruct his priests and Catholic parishioners to ignore the law. The Republican sponsors of the bill say that […]

BASKETBLOGGING, COLLEGE EDITION….Those of you out in Washington state will have to help me out because I just watched the Loyola Marymount-Gonzaga game and just don’t understand what the fuss over Adam Morrison is all about. Setting aside his truly horrendous facial hair and the fact that he sounds like kind of a tool based […]

HELP WANTED….Our founding editor, Charlie Peters, often bemoans the feeble grasp of history that plagues most everyone under the age of 50, and particularly the editors he has nurtured over the past few decades. When he sat down to write his latest book, Five Days in Philadelphia, he hoped to bring at least one crucial […]

“CHENEY ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTS FELLOW HUNTER IN TEXAS”….I tried to write my own headline, but, really ? how do you top this? Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said today. Harry Whittington, 78, was “alert and doing fine” [although still hospitalized] after […]

BASKETBLOGGING: WEEKEND EDITION….There are truly few things that can make me as happy as a good basketball game. Last night we saw the Wizards beat the Cavaliers 101-89 in a less-competitive-than-expected match-up. It was my first time watching LeBron James and although I’m not disputing that he’s incredibly talented, he was awfully human last night. […]

A PROPER BURIAL?….I don’t have much time to comment on this right now, but I feel the need to say how absurd and ridiculous the whole debate about Mrs. King’s funeral is. I was on “Scarborough Country” to argue about it last night (you can see the shout-fest here), but I figured this was just […]