Rabe Ramblings

I saw the new iTunes commercial the other day where 65-year-old Paul McCartney is prancing around with a mandolin playing a song called ...

Whether you are a confused fan, or merely caught up in the post-series controversy, thanks to this supressed clip which has since surfaced, ...

If you're a Supreme Court geek like I am, I'd highly recommend picking up a copy of Jan Crawford Greenberg's recent book Supreme...

Hold on to that feelaaaeeeaaaaiiin...

Even Hugh Hewitt, who tried to convince us that we were being served Dom Perignon when President Bush nominated Harriet Miers to the Supreme...

It is nothing short of amazing to me that the Bush Administration and its minions have begun demonizing even the conservative opponents of t...

Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court handed down an unremarkable ruling in a discrimination case in which a woman claimed she had been systemat...

As you know by now, the great goddess Science has pronounced global warming a human-induced tragedy that will destroy the entire planet in p...

In an odd confluence, the themes of my previous two separate, unrelated posts suddenly come together in this Slate article today in which t...

These have been widely linked in the blogosphere already, but be sure not to miss the fascinating exchange between the atheist Christopher H...

It takes a lot to bring an uninspired, reclusive blogger--who's been on hiatus for nearly a month--out of his self-imposed exile. But Ji...

As you've probably seen by now, the great journalist and author David Halberstam died the other day , the victim of a car accident in Ca...

The relentlessly clueless Dahlia Lithwick, who covers the Supreme Court for Slate, has weighed in on the Carhart partial-birth abortion r...

We had another one drop off our "Can't Believe They're Still Alive" list this week. Kitty Carlisle-Hart was 97 years old,...

Because the Virginia Tech shooting is understandably overshadowing everything else right now, it would be easy to miss the fact that the Uni...

A new, hilarious sidelight to the never-ending Imus story is the frantic backpedaling by the scores of journalists and politicians who regul...

Imus, not surprisingly, has finally gotten the axe . It seems that all the bowing and scraping did him no good in the end, except to provoke...

I've never gotten Don Imus. I'm a radio guy, and I've spent a good portion of my life studying broadcasters. Even back when I wa...

For whatever it's worth, you can kick off your Easter weekend with an hourlong documentary I co-wrote and co-produced examining the cros...

Wow, the Tennessee Lady Vols, led by legendary coach Pat Summitt, captured their seventh national championship in basketball last night. Le...