Archive for December, 2007
« Previous EntriesHuckabee: I am too principled to run attack ads.
Monday, December 31st, 2007But here’s the one I was going to run but decided not to. Take a look.
And if you guys want to run it on your networks for free, feel free to. I’m not stopping you. I just won’t pay money for it. Because I am a man of principle.
You know it’s one thing for Huckabee […]
A New Year’s treat from Mitt Romney
Monday, December 31st, 2007Mitt Romney makes my favorite campaign ads out of either party. They’re weirdly lifeless and unintentionally hilarious on a level that Mike Gravel can only dream of. In a way, they’re so artificial and inherently dishonest, that there’s almost a weird sort of honesty about them. Like, “This is who I am; a vapid, […]
Edwinertiards!
Monday, December 31st, 2007Atrios has endorsed Edwards for the Iowa caucus. I don’t expect that to do a lot, since most of Atrios’s readers have probably already made up their minds at this juncture, but I thought it was cool. And noteworthy, since you’ll probably see a handful of other big endorsements from liberal bloggers soon.
On the downside, […]
Creeping Boltonism
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Via Andrew Sullivan (Who reads Hugh Hewitt so we don’t have to):
HH: Governor Romney, one of the first tasks for a conservative in the White House will be to get control of the Department of State, and the Central Intelligence Agency, that keep turning out these NIE’s and leaking things. Do you have the capacity […]
Was Ann Coulter unavailable?
Saturday, December 29th, 2007A lot of people have been pointing out the stupidity of the New York Times’ recent decision to pick up the tab for Bill Kristol’s career life support. But it’s a decision too patently ridiculous for me to not throw in my two cents.
On the one hand, I can sort of understand the rationale behind […]
Sympathy for the devil
Friday, December 28th, 2007You’ve really got to feel sorry for Mitt Romney right now. This is the guy who is [probably] going to be the Republican nominee and yet he is beset on all sides by indignities within his own party.
Romney’s main pitch is that he’s a good synthesis of the three legs of the Republican stool, as […]
The Music Page
Thursday, December 27th, 2007I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous about this. Today I used GarageBand to add some surprisingly realistic-sounding bass to two of my songs (and flute to one of those), created Veritosity’s music page and uploaded the whole thing onto the Internet. Stressing that these are demos, I’m still pretty happy with how […]
Earth-shattering political commentary - now with a kickass soundtrack!
Thursday, December 27th, 2007Ali and I recorded a demo of one of my other songs tonight, and I’m pretty pleased with it. This is one of my favorite songs I’ve written, and I hope you’ll like it too. It will be going up on the new music page tomorrow, along with two older songs from back in this […]
Countdown to Iowa
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007Don’t expect a lot of posts about politics until January 3rd. I’ll still be posting here regularly, but it’s going to be more about other things. Frankly, the American election process, particularly during primaries, is an obscene, farcical, unsettling process and if it weren’t so damn important the only thing motivating my interest in it […]
Spreading holiday cheer
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007Happy Festivus, everyone. Also have a great Saturnelia or however you observe the Winter Solstice. And to our Christian friends and neighbors, a good Christmas too. There are plenty of blogs that are taking a break from politics right now to do some old-fashioned Christmas-time introspection, but I’m not really interested in that. Instead, I’m […]
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