Archive for December, 2007
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007Here’s a holiday treat from Josh:
We’ll see who the winners actually are on December 31st, but I’m with Josh on Bob Allen and Alberto Gonzalez - those guys worked really hard to earn it. Fingers crossed, people.
Dear Obama supporters of the blogosphere,
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007(And Andrew Sullivan in particular)
In the spirit of the season, everyone needs to chill the hell out. As Matthew Yglesias points out, people have a tendency to overstate their case when it comes to supporting or knocking down candidates during the primary season. Everyone’s guilty of it, including me. But for whatever reason, that seems […]
McCain and Edwards: Super-secret frontrunners?
Monday, December 24th, 2007That are rumors swirling that McCain and Edwards might be doing stronger in their primaries than current polling indicates. On the GOP side, Greg reports that McCain is trending upwards and could possibly get a strong second-place finish in New Hampshire. That would be potentially embarrassing for Romney, considering, as one McCain staffer points out: […]
RIP Beard
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007Due to complications in a routine trimming procedure, my beard was officially pronounced dead early this morning. I’m sad. Looks like it’s back to the rugged stubble for a little while.
On the plus side, I’m going to try to get the music page on this site up and running soon. So look for that.
Huckabee almost falls off the torture crazy train, promptly scrambles back on
Friday, December 21st, 2007Mike Huckabee on torture, late November:
For the most part, Huckabee told reporters after speaking in Cedar Rapids on Thursday morning, U.S. policy ought to be to “never support anything done to others that we would not want done to our own soldiers.”
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Huckabee would leave decisions about the appropriateness of the technique “because of a unique […]
The most sophisticated electoral math known to man
Friday, December 21st, 2007Yesterday’s TPMtv electoral roundup was definitely a keeper. Take a look:
So that makes Romney the eventual nominee, I suspect, since the conservative media’s going to keep piling on Huckabee until he really starts to feel the pressure. Expectations for Huckabee are high right now, so Romney might not even have to get first in Iowa […]
My totally awesome Moleskine notebook
Thursday, December 20th, 2007Last week, after I traded in some of my textbooks from this semester at the NYU bookstore for cash (including a few I never even opened that I was still told to buy at absurdly high prices, although that’s a common complaint among college students that nobody really wants to read), I spent a little […]
“The white man is the Jew of liberal fascism.”
Thursday, December 20th, 2007Nobody’s ever really properly demonstrated to me the importance of Jonah Goldberg’s opinion to the wider electorate, so I guess unless you’re either a politics nerd like me and most of the people on my blogroll or a pretentious conservative self-styled pseudo-intellectual (which is really just one of the more detestable subgroups of your run-of-the-mill […]
From the I-should-have-thought-of-that-sooner department
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007Following Matt’s lead, I’m going to start cross-posting at
From the department of unintentionally insightful observations
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007Via Chris Bowers:
NOVOTNY: Well, it is unusual, as you know, for a Democrat or an independent Democrat, as you call yourself, to endorse a Republican. Did you consider any of your Democratic colleagues?
LIEBERMAN: Well, I did. I mean, to have full disclosure, not one of the Democrats asked for my support, which may be a […]