I can’t say it better than David Bernstein did, so I’m just reproducing his post: As co-blogger Jonathan reports below, the Obama campaign has sicced its lawyers on t.v. stations that might air a well-sourced NRA advertisement that correctly points out Obama’s longstanding anti-gun record. The proper response to such attempts to infringe on the [...]
You know, I’ve spent pretty much every waking minute for the last week trying to figure out what happened, why it happened, why is was a major crisis, and what the Bernanke/Paulson plan does. I’m busily shopping an article on it, but in the mean time, the big thing I’d warn everyone is that hardly [...]
I don’t know whether to give this a number or not. Okay, this is now my favorite. The whispers bouncing around the halls of NBC today say Palin is currently considering doing a surprise pop-in on the long-running late-night sketch comedy show. Additionally, OK! is hearing that Emmy-winner Fey might reprise her now-infamous impersonation. You [...]
PS: I’m sorry, I should have clarified this isn’t my work; it’s something that’s passing around in email.
We’ve often been told “hope is not a strategy.” It’s worth remembering that cynicism isn’t either.
Here’s the link I’m not going to repeat the rumor in precise detail, because that will just put the precise detail out into Google. But it’s sort of the canonical “Moby” rumor: Someone who claims to be a “former Palin supporter” reports something with no evidence based on “something they heard” and says that “as [...]
But every four years, when a major election is at stake, or when a big crisis appears, styles changes. In their world folks mutter, “pull out all the stops, this is really important.” They may retain the outward appearance of keeping to their previous standards, but in fact they start to say whatever it takes [...]
Is Sarah Palin Racist? “Well, She Ended Our Conversation When She Learned I Was Black” A year or two after her marriage, when she’d just had Track and was very likely pregnant with Bristol, she was hanging out in a fast food joint in Anchorage trolling for musicians and told this guy she doesn’t do [...]