Archive for May, 2007
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It’s a serious mistake to be dismissive of Brownback as a contender in the Republican primary. The guy’s smart, he’s charismatic, and I don’t think it’s outside the realm of possibility that he believes every single word that comes out of his own mouth. I can’t think of any other remotely viable candidate from either […]
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
If there was ever a good reason to hold a caption contest, it’s this:
Seriously. Even McCain was smart enough not to wear that ridiculous helmet - if you’re trying to make the point that it’s safe to wander around an Iraqi marketplace, the large security detail accompanying you causes enough cognitive dissonance on its own […]
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Via Fark, Pew Research finds that 65% of Americans believe that in general, corporations make too much profit.
These are promising numbers. They don’t really get to the root of the problem - usually it’s more the means by which corporations make their profits than the profits themselves that are the issue - but numbers […]
Dana Milbank: Al Gore is a big fat nerd
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007Of all the stupid labels that the mainstream media tags politicians with, the stupidest one has to be “too smart.” Apparently when someone shows remarkable foresight and substantive knowledge on major policy issues, that’s supposed to be a bad thing.
Note that near the end of the column, Milbank even goes so far as to refer […]
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Today was one of the most productive days I’ve had in weeks, which is funny, because I didn’t go to school. But I managed to get a bunch of work done, including sending out four more query letters.
Ten school days left. I’ve got a few pretty ambitious goals lined up for this summer, and I […]
Monday, May 28th, 2007
Happy Memorial Day, everyone. I’m going to be in New York City for the day at my future home NYU. So in the meantime, here’s an excellent column from Paul Krugman, and a music video from one of my favorite current punk bands. Bonus points: the song, and the album it comes from, are relevant […]
Sunday, May 27th, 2007
Matt Zeitlin hits on a point that is absolutely crucial to understanding religious fundamentalism: Christian evangelicals are not significantly more theologically literate than the rest of us.
Many liberals are of the mark when they characterize certain conservative social and moral views as just taken straight from the Bible, and thus unworthy of our consideration. Instead, […]
Come Together
Saturday, May 26th, 2007The play went pretty well yesterday, I thought. My role basically involves hopping around on one foot for the duration of the whole first segment, and a whole day of hiking and walking around in 90+ weather had already left me pretty exhausted, so the last minute or so was spent in a state of […]
Monday, May 21st, 2007
Posting will be light and sporadic for the next couple of weeks. This is the last week before the school play goes up, so there’s going to be a lot of rehearsal time, and the week after that is probably going to be layout for the last Blue Prints issue of the year, which also […]
Gonzales is going to resign soon
Sunday, May 20th, 2007That’s my prediction. As Josh Marshall pointed out, Gonzales is the only thing between the GOP and a flood of unpleasant investigations, but at this point that doesn’t really matter anymore. This is too much for the Bush administration to take, and Bush is backing off from defending Gonzales just like every other Republican politician […]
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