The Sun Came Up Today

30Jun10

In other news, Christopher Hitchens has been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. Unfortunately, this had to happen at some point. Hitchens isn’t someone I often agree with, but he’s someone I love having around. Strangely, in the linked article, HuffPo suggests that he likely cause of the cancer was smoking. I’m sure it wasn’t helping, but from what […]

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Tags: atheism, cancer, christopher hitchens, esophageal cancer, hitchens

GOLLLLLDBERG!!

28Jun10

Ouch. Greenwald brings the heat on the Atlantic’s second most controversial blogger. I don’t know where my career is heading, but I really hope something like this never happens to me. Greenwald pulls no punches. You can’t even really say that Greenwald isn’t being realistic here, a critique that I find often fits with his […]

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Tags: dave weigel, glenn grenwald, jeffrey goldberg, the atlantic

Re-entry

24Jun10

Damn, I haven’t posted for a while! There’s a story on that which may or may not be told (I think I may never issue a “guaranteed” post again), but some quick thoughts: Today was something special. The goal was one thing, and a very good one. However, what surpassed that to me was that […]

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Because I Won’t Have Sue Lowden to Kick Around Anymore…

15Jun10

An aggressive ad from Harry Reid against his official GOP opponent, Sharron Angle. The tea party favorite managed to overcome Lowden, the favorite, in a primary. It’s hard to imagine what would be more politically viable, eliminating social security and Medicare, or negotiating health care costs with livestock. I actually would have gone with the […]

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Tags: attack ad, daily kos, gop, Harry Reid, harry reid attack ad, pollster, pos, sharron angle

On What Paris Used to Be

15Jun10

I’ve posted a similar performance before for PoliOlogy’s acoustic cafe, but I think this one tops it. The more I hear “1901,” I really think it’s one of the better pop songs of the last 20 years. It’s amazing that a song can about the way Paris was in 1901, and yet also used for […]

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Palin 2.0

11Jun10

McCain might have gotten someone a little smarter this time. I hope she can keep away any one creepin’ trying to pull some op-research.

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Mad Men

08Jun10

I’m very late to the game, but the first season is On Demand, so why not? About to watch episode three now. My sense so far is that it is a very good show; one of the reasons I avoided it at first is that I wasn’t sure what could really happen. This line of […]

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Tags: amc, hamm, john hamm, mad men

Nate Silver on The Spill

02Jun10

I hadn’t made this connection before: Mostly I simply think that the disaster is reinforcing people’s frustration — an emotion that has become very widespread within the country, and which crosses most demographic and political boundaries. If that remains the prevailing mood of the country in November, the risks to the incumbent President and his […]

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Tags: bp, economic crisis, nate silver, oil spill, Sarah Palin