Bill Kristol continues to push Sarah Palin, and hints at his own responsibility for the pick. It’s columns like this that make me wonder whether there’ll be a reckoning in the circles of conservative punditry/journalism/activism after the election. Republicans aren’t the sort of people who are willing to forgive defeat; if the current situation holds, […]
Month: October 2008
This is interesting; I got the impression on Thursday night that Palin had intentionally mispronounced nuclear, presumably as some sort of anti-elitist message to the base. Before the first time she s
With his beloved Rangers having opened their season in Prague, this seems like as good a time as any to note that world’s most dangerous professor Michael Berube has returned to his own blog. As
To no non-wingnut’s surprise, Yoosta-Bee has-been David Zucker’s latest film Michael Moore is teh Fat Heh Indeed! has been a commercial and critical fiasco. So if you’re the kind of person for whom the failure of a liberal movie represents not a lack of interest in a particular film but massive public support for the […]
From the political candidate who — for nearly six weeks now — hasn’t had a public thought that wasn’t handed to her on an index card, there’s this: “The pundits today o
I don’t have much invested in the outcome of the NL playoffs, though I suppose if pressed I’d have to root for the Phillies. And while the Phils appear to have a comfortable lead in today&
Oh, this takes some of the sting out of the drubbing that USC applied to my beloved Ducks: It wasn’t a collapse. “Collapse” is too nice of a word. A collapse would mean the Chicago Cubs actually showed up for the NLDS. It wasn’t a choke. A choke is what happened in 2003, when the […]
Since Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers is supposed to be the subject of the greatest media whitewash since the Clintons killed Vince Foster, I suppose it’s only fair to ask why
Just in case you had some strange compulsion to read the thing, Benen identifies the important part of the Times‘ lengthy attempt to indulge winger guilt-by-distant-association games with Obama
I’m stunned that the voters of Michigan are open-minded enough to give their votes to the man who, just nine months ago, conspired to have them brutally disenfranchised.
Ralph Stanley is cutting an ad for Obama. Good deal. Via Alterdestiny.
Just finished up the Patterson School Fall Conference . This year’s topic was Africa; visiting luminaries included such esteemed blogospheric figures as David Axe of War is Boring. In a related