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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008The reason I keep coming back and reading the Politico has nothing to do with the quality of its journalism - it’s just pure, condensed, conventional wisdom, dispensed without a whole lot of regard to things like critical thought. It’s a messy little petri dish that you can put under the microscope to observe stupid […]
I’m green and I’m misleading and I’ve had too much tequila
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008The Hold Steady, in addition to being composed of pure awesome, are some of the hardest working dudes in the music industry today. After their third album, Boys and Girls in America, came out, they basically went on tour forever. When they finally settled back down in New York City like a year later, they […]
The Minipundit has become the Manpundit
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Duly noted. Changed the name in the blogroll from “Minipundit” to “Dylan Matthews.” So if you’re wondering where that went, scroll up a bit.
Also, happy birthday. To celebrate, here’s a song that no party mix is complete with out:
Obama wins Wisconsin!!!
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008I know, I know, not news. He was projected to win all along. And anyway, Wisconsin doesn’t count, because Wisconsin’s, like, totally gay. Or something. The Clinton campaign might not want to use that line.
Anyway, totally not news. No, the real news right now is that Obama’s parents were probably Communists. Which, of course, would […]
Oops
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008My bad. The Clinton campaign is now aggressively denying that they’ll be courting delegates pledged to Obama. They also say that it’s time for camp Obama to “to be clear about their intentions,” because if there’s one thing we’ve learned this election cycle it’s that Obama has to answer for or deny involvement in pretty […]
Clinton campaign: No states actually count
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008Via the Independent, I’m not sure if there’s any other way to interpret this as a big middle finger to people concerned that scraping by with a superdelegate-infused majority would be undemocratic:
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign intends to go after delegates whom Barack Obama has already won in the caucuses and primaries if she needs them […]
Guys, he’s retired now. You can stop trying to kill him.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008Others will be better at interpreting what Castro’s resignation actually means (re: Clemons), but right now the one thing that sticks in my head is a little factoid the co-writer of my forthcoming Cracked article dug up for the article saying that the CIA is thought to have attempted to assassinate Castro 638 times. It’s […]
Up late on a school night
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008One of the advantages to being the sole editor/staff writer/admin/whatever of a politics blog is that you can use it as a platform to shamelessly pimp out whatever little hobbies or side projects you’ve got lying around. As I’m doing right now by mentioning that I just got back from open mic night at the […]
The neutrality of this post is disputed
Monday, February 18th, 2008Wikileaks, we hardly knew ye. You were a great force for government openness in the world and did great work in exposing corruption at the highest levels of American government - from those documents that provided conclusive proof that the moon landing was faked [CITATION NEEDED] to the transcript of that drunken voicemail message from […]
Something to bring home for the kids
Monday, February 18th, 2008Guantanamo Bay has a gift shop? No freakin’ way.
Two, Guantanamo Bay has a gift shop. Sure, sure, allegedly it’s a NEX, the Navy’s equivalent of a PX. But you can buy Camp Delta (the detention facility) souvenirs for your friends there. A stuffed iguana that has “Guantanamo Bay” stitched on his left side currently guards […]