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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Maybe it’s just because I grew up in a spiritual wasteland of heretics and secularists, but I didn’t even know we had a National Day of Prayer.
Now Morbo comes down pretty hard on the idea of a National Day of Prayer, but I’m a little more ambivalent. After all, it’s not just a holiday for […]
Like The Manchurian Candidate, but stupider
Friday, April 25th, 2008A lot has been made of the rank hypocrisy of this Krauthammer column in the blogs today, but Tom Barnett accidentally sheds light on what’s truly insane about this column in a completely unrelated post.
McCain would scare me on many levels, but a Dem prez plus strengthened Dem majorities in both houses? Yikes, that’s got […]
Respect my authoritah
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Based on this exchange between the FBI Director Mueller and Reps. Wexler and Cohen, you would think that the FBI basically what authority it has to police other federal agencies. But that’s not true at all! They actually have a very simple process for investigating other federal agencies.
Step 1: A federal agency (let’s say, the […]
Embedded in Jesusland
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Matt Taibbi goes undercover in Hagee’s church so you don’t have to. So what’s it like in there?
Ridiculously weird.
The whole thing is worth reading to take in all of the hilarity/sheer terror, but here’s the moral at the end of the story:
By the end of the weekend I realized how quaint was the mere suggestion […]
Your voting bloc’s incredibly stupid name
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Looks like those white, working-class women who make up a large part of Hillary Clinton’s base finally have their own stupid name. “Wal-Mart Women.” Great.
Listen, people who are sort of like me: We need to start working on picking out our dumb name right now before David Broder does it for us. I don’t want […]
Pennsylvania: WTF?
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008For those of you who woke up this morning with a searing headache, mild nausea, and a general feeling of, “What the hell was that?” regarding the last several weeks of news coverage, look to my column today in NYULocal for an explanation of what the fuck.
In other campaign news, holy crap yes!
Predictions for Tonight
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008Hillary Clinton will beat Barack Obama by 5-10 points. Whereas a few weeks ago, such a small margin would have been considered an astonishing upset for Obama, during a rally today, Barack Obama will cough loudly. The media will jump on this, Hillary Clinton will jump on this and John McCain’s grinning face will appear […]
Pennsylvania Primary Day!
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008I totally forgot that was today until this morning’s newspaper kindly reminded me, giving me a strange mixture of relief and nausea. Relief, because it’s one more state I’m not going to have to read about for a solid month before their primary, and nausea because the Pennsylvania Primary is kind of like a bad […]
Like a big bacchanalia for IR nerds
Monday, April 21st, 2008Yo, check it: Exactly a week from now, I’m going to be attending not one, but two NYU events with former US Senators discussing foreign policy and national security. The first one, called the Cohen-Nunn dialogues, is going to feature former Senators William Cohen and Sam Nunn, Mayor Bloomberg, and former Homeland Security DepSec Admiral […]
Bill Kristol is wrong about everything, Part ?
Monday, April 21st, 2008I tried to write a takedown of Bill Kristol’s Passover special, I really did. But every single time I tried reading a paragraph of it, my eyes lost focused or rolled so far back in my head it hurt.
There’s just nothing to be outraged about here. It’s just too … fucking … dumb. It transcends […]