Archive for December, 2007
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Monday, December 17th, 2007In case you haven’t heard yet, my very own Senator Lieberman has just endorsed John McCain for President. It’s the kind of thing that should rankle me quite a bit, considering the still considerable reserves of disgust and animosity I have built up towards Lieberman left over from the 2006 Senate campaign. But honestly, this […]
Jack Kerouac’s Reading List
Sunday, December 16th, 2007I just got back from the absolutely incredible Jack Kerouac exhibit at the New York Public Library, which had the original scroll on which Kerouac wrote On the Road as its centerpiece. Incredible stuff. One of the things I noticed was that Kerouac had a list of books he wanted to read, with the ones […]
Last day at TPM
Friday, December 14th, 2007Today was the end of my internship at TPM Media. It was really a privilege to work with such a great group of people on a blog that I had been such a big fan of even before I came onboard. I’ll miss that place.
What this means though is that over the next month, with […]
The GOP’s sad, atrophied attack machine
Thursday, December 13th, 2007Via Atrios comes this unholy abomination of bad decision-making:
Try and watch the whole thing. I dare you. I couldn’t.
Clearly this was intended to be a humorous little evisceration of Senate Democrats but it pretty much fails outrageously on that count. Here’s other things that it ends up eviscerating instead:
Humor
Christmas carols (War on Christmas indeed)
Your intelligence
Happiness
Interns […]
Devil’s Breath
Thursday, December 13th, 2007A friend of mine told me about this report from the intrepid journalists at Vice magazine a while back, but I didn’t have time to sit down and check it out until last night. The whole thing is unbelievably disturbing but fascinating in that twisted way that things like rampant corruption and hallucinations and real-world […]
Huckceleration
Thursday, December 13th, 2007When that word starts taking off, remember you saw it here first. Unless you saw it in the TPM Daily Digest. But either way I made it up, so it’s only a matter of days before the boys on the Huckabee bus run out of their own annoying political clichés and start paying me royalties […]
Tom Friedman’s writing is like a terrible analogy for Tom Friedman’s writing
Thursday, December 13th, 2007Every once in a while it’s important to remind everyone that not only is Tom Friedman pretty consistently wrong on everything that he’s supposed to be one of the world’s premier experts in, but that on top of that, he’s not even a very good writer.
Growing up in Minnesota, one of my favorite things was […]
Welcome, Johnsonian readers! For real this time!
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Alright, so clearly I jumped the gun a bit a couple weeks ago when I welcomed clickthroughs from Veritosity partner The Johnsonian since due to some technical difficulties it was going to be a few days before my blog was actually embedded on their site. So consider this the official welcome for all intents and […]
And now back to our regularly scheduled programming
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007I think everyone who’s been paying attention has been pretty much assuming from the start that there was no chance Putin would be giving up power and fading into anonymity as soon as his term was up - the question wasn’t would he still be in power but instead how he would still be […]
Self-indulgent procrastination alert
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007I probably shouldn’t be blogging right now given that this week I have two exams, one take-home exam and one essay to finish on top of a Book Club and Table For One at TPMCafe and another one being set up before my amazing internship at TPM ends on Friday. Ideally, right now I would […]
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