Archive for January, 2008
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Monday, January 28th, 2008It didn’t really surprise me that after the South Carolina primary on Saturday, where Barack Obama basically turned into a 300 story tall radioactive Japanese lizard and lay waste to Clinton’s campaign headquarters, that Clinton’s response might be something along the lines of, “Sike! That primary didn’t count! The important one is Florida, where I’m […]
Every day is John McCain day on the Straight Talk Express
Sunday, January 27th, 2008To people who aren’t a member of the Straight Talk cult, it’s not really news that John McCain is an infallible font of wisdom and hard truths. But did you also know that he’s ill-prepared to answer any question that doesn’t involve war, Dirty Harry-style hardboiled dialogue, or worshipful exposition about how much of a […]
SC Post-Mortem
Sunday, January 27th, 2008Here are a few official statements about the primary results worth checking out:
Obama Camp: “I AM ARES, LORD OF DESTRUCTION. KNEEL BEFORE ME AND TREMBLE.”
Clinton Camp: “Was there a primary last night? No way! Where? South Carolina? Psshht. Whatever. That’s not an important one. The big one is Florida, with its whopping 0 delegates up […]
Where else to find me
Saturday, January 26th, 2008Long-time readers of the blog have probably noticed a gradual shift in tone since it’s inception, or at least since it’s reboot - influenced by time at TPM, I originally envisioned this blog as a wonkish take on politics i.e. Ezra Klein or Matthew Yglesias. But they’re both better at that sort of thing than […]
Prescience
Saturday, January 26th, 2008Told ya:
The interesting thing about John McCain is that his whole shtick is a combination of surprisingly moderate positions on a handful of (mostly domestic issues) but with a liberal dose of (mostly foreign policy) positions that are way into the crazy spectrum of the far right. So in order to prevent the latter from […]
Atheism’s fine, as long as you recognize how wrong it is
Friday, January 25th, 2008Via Ross Douthat, here’s a definition of atheism that doesn’t make any sense at all:
“The world of today knows a new category of people: the atheists in good faith, those who live painfully the situation of the silence of God, who do not believe in God but do not boast about it; rather they experience […]
Evidently, Rudy CAN fail
Friday, January 25th, 2008
I was saving that pun for when Giuliani lost Florida, but I’m an impatient man, and my love for both the Clash and bad politics/punk rock-related puns is too great.
Anyway, I don’t think the NYT’s pointed non-endorsement of Giuliani was all that pointed or significant. The guy’s losing pretty much everywhere, and based on the […]
Telecom immunity explained
Friday, January 25th, 2008(I think this is going to be crossposted at the NYU College Democrats blog. I’ll post the link up here if that happens.)
On Monday, Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd will filibuster legislation that would provide retroactive immunity to phone companies that knowingly violated the civil liberties of their clients by turning phone records over to the […]
Free shirts are free
Friday, January 25th, 2008Do you like things that are free? Do you frequently find yourself wearing shirts? Do you live in some place that is not Connecticut? Well then you’ll be overjoyed to learn that my good friend John and his business associates wants to give you free t-shirts.
Yes, that’s right: if you sign up on the site, […]
In all fairness, I’m terrified of umbrellas too
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Blech. Now that both major candidates have once again failed to demonstrate leadership and backbone even when the opportunity’s been handed to both of them on a silver platter, I’m remembering how easy it is to get sick of primaries. So instead of horse crap, here’s a video about goats fainting:
See, the goats are like […]
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