Nonsense, freshly skewered
Two of my favorite journalists are Michael Kinsley and Christopher Hitchens, Kinsley because of his calm, relentlessly logical parsing of bullcrap, and Hitchens because he’s almost always either...
View ArticleMcCain, Obama and the media
Perhaps the most important and influential space on the Internet is the “front page’’ of the Drudge Report. About two weeks ago, the lead item on that page was the following (typically blazing)...
View ArticleHillary at State
I’ve tried to stay away from politics for a while now because…. I’m not sure, exactly. Maybe I wanted to avoid a big, sloppy omnibus thing about Obama that would be embarrassing in retrospect. But I...
View ArticleFrank Rich…
of the New York Times delivers a dispatch from the frontier of the gay-marriage debate. To summarize: the last (hopefully, maybe) big barricade of American bigotry is slowly, inevitably being knocked...
View Article(death) panel discussion
The health care “debate” has become so inane and dense with bull***t that I’m resisting the urge to write something big and comprehensive about it, lest my head explode, indeed lest it explode because...
View Article71 Percent of Americans, Including 52 Percent of Republicans, Are Liberal...
I love this post from the esteemed Matt Yglesias about the utterly ridiculous Sarah Palin so much that rather than link to it, I’m pasting the whole thing: The always sage David Broder offers up some...
View ArticleObama
I’ve been meaning to write something about the President and this month’s elections and the current political climate for some time now but haven’t because, A. I’m lazy, and B. I lack the instinctive...
View ArticleOsama RIH
That’s for Rot In Hell. There’s going to be, and already has been, a lot of commentary and opinion and analysis from people who can’t possibly have the facts. I’m not going to be one of those people. I...
View ArticleAre you ready from some weirdness?
In case you didn’t hear, Hank Williams, Jr. – who famously sings the “Are you ready for some football,” lead-in to Monday Night Football on ESPN – was on a Fox News show when, umprompted, he said of...
View ArticleWho you should vote for
I just saw that Romney ad for the umpteenth time, the one with the woman who “runs to forget,” the gloomy reality supposedly created by Obama, the ad that ends with the woman holding her tiny son, in...
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