So did scientists discover ‘soft tissue’ from a T-Rex that died 68 million years ago? And when am I going to get my pet dinosaur?
TPM Reader DM takes up the discussion after the earlier cold water from TPM Reader DF …
I have to take issue with a couple things that DF said in the blurb you posted in the editor’s blog. I am a micropaleontolgist/paleoclimatologist, so like DF, I don’t have a dog in this fight, to use another taxonomically challenged metaphor. But I have also followed this particular story since the original articles, and have found the back and forth rather fascinating. I agree completely with DF that the latest study is not a confirmation, as we desperately need an outside group to replicate these results. But there are a couple things to keep in mind here.
How Iowa became a lab for conservative attacks on judges.
GOP still having a bit of a hard time getting the language quite right on race and racism.
Erick Erickson on Obamacare: ‘We must deny them the opportunity to fix the law itself.’
I’ve told you many times that reader emails are at the heart of makes TPM TPM. Some of it is news tips, which have been at the heart of some of our biggest stories. More often it’s just a constant stream of pointers to out of the way news reports we wouldn’t have known about otherwise. But more than anything it’s a never ending stream of commentary, opinion, story ideas, reactions and critiques that have become so deeply woven into my mental life that it’s hard to fully convey. What’s a treat after 13 years of doing this is that I still have every single one that was ever sent in.
The times they are a changin’ when a Croat group can sue Bob Dylan in France for inciting racism.
It had to happen. Rob Ford brings his crack-smoking, binge-drinking, over-the-top ways south of the border to America. Well, not the real Rob Ford, if you want to be really technical about it. But Rob Ford, a crack smoker from Canada has now appeared in the first American attack ad.
Edie Windsor’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, the woman who argued the case that overturned the Defense of Marriage Act, looks at the Cheney family feud and has some advice for Liz Cheney.
We’re pleased to welcome award-winning NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik for TPM Cafe’s Book Club this week. His book, Murdoch’s World: The Last of the Old Media Empires, is a fascinating look inside the media conglomerate Rupert Murdoch built. Folkenflik kicks things off today with an original essay on how Murdoch sees his legacy, part of which is on trial these days in London, and how he hopes to rewrite it.
TPM Prime subscribers should join us for a chat on Friday at noon with Folkenflik about his book.