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Friday, July 18th, 2008I feel a little guilty doing the whole “look at what shitty thing a prominent columnist wrote” thing at Netroots Nation when I could be going around doing cool stuff, but then again I also feel the compulsion to have new stuff up here if I bump into, like, Kos or someone and give him […]
Charles Krauthammer: Hate Goblin
Friday, July 18th, 2008Charles Krauthammer is angry for reasons that don’t make a lot of sense.
Barack Obama wants to speak at the Brandenburg Gate. He figures it would be a nice backdrop. The supporting cast — a cheering audience and a few fainting frauleins — would be a picturesque way to bolster his foreign policy credentials.
What Obama does […]
Bloggers are mean jerks who suck
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008Man, is James Kirchick annoying. One would think that after being so thoroughly pimp-slapped by Matthew Yglesias, he would decide to take a short break from the Internet, or at least a short break from being infuriatingly smug, but instead he’s apparently decided to retaliate against the left-wing blogosphere with a Politico article that mixes […]
A brief word from our sponsors
Monday, July 14th, 2008Dylan and John are both friends of the blog, and I think they’re mostly right. Threatening to not vote for Obama because he’s disappointed you on a few issues when he’s still, by leaps and bounds, the superior candidate, is really dumb. And this Stephen Suh post is as absurd as the well-deserved takedown by […]
The road to Denver
Monday, July 14th, 2008It really is a brand new day in the Democratic Party. And what better way to signal the party’s newly found independence from corporate lobbyists than putting the fundraising for their convention almost entirely in the hands of one of one of the bigger corporate lobbyists?
Party conventions these days are all about symbolism, so let’s […]
The New Yorker’s very dry wit
Sunday, July 13th, 2008I guess this is kind of funny? Sort of?
I think the problem here - and why the cover is neither offensive nor hilarious but just sort of baffling - is that whichever editor approved this cover doesn’t quite get satire.
See, if this cover were a work of satire, then the artist would have taken something […]
Fight for those rights / FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE!
Friday, July 11th, 2008Speaking of whether or not Obama is a genuine Amurrican - Ben Craw over at the brand spankin’ new TPMTV blog demonstrates what anyone who’s ever interned over at TPM knows - that he has an almost magical ability to summon up just the right YouTube video for any occasion. To whit:
I think that pretty […]
Mortal Kombat
Thursday, July 10th, 2008I think at some point a couple days ago, McCain assembled all of his various spokespeople in a room and said, “Alright, here’s the deal: the douchiest surrogate gets to be vice president.”
Lieberman came out of the gate swinging - he, after all, is an established master of the douchey arts. “I see nothing wrong […]
Aw, nuts!
Thursday, July 10th, 2008“Say,” you’ve probably wondered, “I wonder what Jesse Jackson’s up to these days.”
Well, as it turns out, he’s found a lucrative career being fucking terrifying.
To quote Jackson on the topic of Barack Obama: “I want to cut his nuts off.”
He’s apologized, of course. But I think that was a mistake. After all, cutting people’s testes […]
Slow blogging day
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008I think the McCain campaign pays Michael Goldfarb by the post. Because with a lot of them, he doesn’t really seem to be trying.
The New York Times reports on the shift to Invesco Field:
The outdoor venue brings some risks. But Ms. Dunn said the campaign had studied historical weather patterns and was confident that […]