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's game, I can't help but think it's somewhat of a...
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.
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.
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 and William Ayers:[T]he two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever...
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 note, bloggers are now permanently banned from all Patterson School events. Tomorrow I head to...
In that spirit, Kaus on the VP debate:Big loser, again, is Hillary. In two years Palin will be so much better she won't even be in the same league. ...The.
Each December, the state of Alaska hosts a holiday party. Bubbling with seasonal cheer, the public are invited to drop by the governor's mansion -- where Sarah Palin rarely spends.
It's surely highly-paid TV pundits who are completely obsessed with bizarrely involuted meta-critiques of politics as infotainment theater.Yglesias is spot on regarding this, but I think what he's saying can be extended to the blogosphere as well. We forget that most Americans, and in particular most...
Was Biden talking about how he came to believe that the Senate should take the philosophy of the president's judicial appointments into account. Helping to torpedo Bork was indeed one.
...but as far as I'm concerned, there was a coherent, well-informed adult up there, alongside someone who would get a C in a freshman American Politics course.