Conservatives like to complain that the media insists on covering on the bad news in Iraq (like car bombs blowing up dozens of people) while ignoring the good news (a fresh coat of paint on a school!). Well, given what news we get about metatrends...
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Paperwight makes a good point in the discussion of Dave's Ann Coulter post. It makes perfect sense for Coulter to recycle stale anecdotes from Reagan-era Michael Medved columns, because this will still seem fresh to a.
One of the most amusing pathologies of wingnut cranks is their unyielding conviction that Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee in 2004, despite the facts that 1)she repeatedly said.
Probably not, unfortunately. Ann Coulter has been given a seat at the table in national media circles for some time now, in person and in print. From where I sit, she appears to have done her level best to lose that seat, but she just...
Rob's absolutely right, Bill Clinton is a brilliant speaker, in terms of rhetoric, content and delivery. The best thing about the speech was the brilliant conceit of taking the actions and.
Bill Clinton is the finest political communicator anyone alive has ever seen. He makes Reagan look like a stammering idiot. Even the Fox News crew was in awe. If you.
"D-Fence!" "D-Fence!" "Extended warranty? I can't lose!" "Ayn Rand's philosophical genius is eclipsed only by Ann Coulter!" This last category, which Moe Sislak ("that's right--he's a surgeon!") didn't reach, is exemplified by Amber Pawlik. The fine Expos fans at Sadly, No recently linked to this diary entry...
This site's devoted readers (if any) will have noticed a relative absence of the ballast I usually provide to this blog, because of a trip to NYC to seek housing..
I was going to comment on Daniel Okrent's embarrassing public editor piece in the Times yesterday, but Bob Somerby has made any further commentary redundent. Read. OK, one brief comment. In this.
Eric Lichtblau's NYT story on Sandy Berger today contains the following insinuation: Leading Republicans have accused him of stashing documents in his clothing intentionally, perhaps as a way of hiding information that could be considered damaging to the Clinton administration. This is, of course, true. Leading Republicans,...
Jerry Springer is contemplating running for Governor of Ohio in 2006. As this article shows, responses are mixed from Ohio Democrats. I don't have any comment on his viability, but I.
Rob mentions the growing problem of global piracy (especially in SE Asia) below in his post on Japan. For a very good discussion of the global piracy problem in recent.