I understand why Billmon and Digby get the props, but what I don’t understand is why more people don’t read Chris more often. His writing is high quality and he’s always talking about what really matters. You can practically feel the snark, which is always delivered in the very finest tradition of family-friendly insults:

But sometimes a particularly choice piece of hypocrisy comes along, a wrenching juxtaposition between reality and sham righteousness so sublime in the totality of its horse-hockeyness that it cries out for special recognition. Such was the story in the New York Times today about the Pentagon’s latest report on “”Military Power of the People’s Republic of China.”

and

This infantile doctrine, this knuckle-dragging stupidity masquerading as statesmanship, this ludicrous, B-movie fantasy of world domination bespeaks a near-total ignorance of human nature and history: an ignorance that will pose an ever-present threat to the life of the world – exacerbating tensions, producing more terrorism, fomenting war, pauperizing nations, beating plowshares into swords – as long as it reigns supreme on the Potomac.

or

The main engine of this mass incarceration has been the 35-year “war on drugs”: a spurious battle against an abstract noun that provides an endless fount of profits, payoffs and power for the politically connected while only worsening the problem it purports to address – just like the “war on terror.” The “war on drugs” has in fact been the most effective assault on an underclass since Stalin’s campaign against the kulaks.

I do loves me the Floyd. /makes calf eyes/ Call me, Chris!