The first two hours of There Will Be Blood are unassailably outstanding; if you don't think it's one of the best American pictures of recent years I don't know what to say other than that tastes differ (i.e. mine is good.) Not only is Day-Lewis...
Author: Scott Lemieux
A good point by Nick Confessore -- when "centrists" call to get "beyond partisanship" and find "real solutions to our problems," they're generally Democrats who know that 1)it's cool to.
Mark Halperin awarding the GOP debate to St. McCain:To his advantage, he stayed above the fray...Whoa, whoa, whoa...so he "stayed above the fray"...while he was relentlessly insulting Mitt Romney? What.
Whew, looked like the Racist Nicknames had it in the bag there for a bit, especially after Hasselbeck responded to the missed chip-shot by throwing another awful pass (admittedly, I must have missed the rule change that now permits receivers to be tackled before the...
Guaranteed between 0-100% accurate!Washington v. Seattle. The Seahawks are a little tough to evaluate because their schedule was so bad, but since they've won 3 playoff games in two years.
The Clinton campaign is arguing that Obama is too "progressive" for their tastes, with a little too much background in community activism. Indeed. Obama just doesn't have the Joementum! for.
An important piece by Charles Peters about Obama's work in the Illinois legislature, including working to compel both houses of the legislature into passing a law requiring videotaped confessions -- the kind of civil liberties protection that it's very difficult to get legislatures to initiate....
Not that his supporters could mount anything but the most feeble arguments, but claiming that Obama won Iowa (approximate percentage of white people: 106%) because someone wanted to vote "for.
Former Obsidian Wings blogger Andrew Olmsted was killed in Iraq. His courage was admirable, and sincerest condolences to his friends and family.
As regrettable as it is that McCain is likely to be the GOP nominee, watching Rudy's self-paradoic self-immolation will provide considerable amusement. Elsewhere, I also have to ask how Giuliani's strategy of running token campaigns in the first two states could possibly make any sense.
As I turned to my distraction from inane television punditry, it occurred to me that we could see not only the first African-American president but the first NHL MVP of.
Obama wins in Iowa--good; hopefully Edwards will finish second. Huckabee wins the GOP, with Saint McCain currently running a distant 4th with 12%, behind Frederick of Hollywood. Which I'm sure.