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David Weigel has had it with Tom Friedman about as much as I have: When Tom Friedman writes about the Third Party Dream, the discriminating reader turns and flees. Exposure to this concentrated level of stupidity is dangerous, possibly toxic, like a run-in with H.P. Lovecraft’s “colour out of space.” To save time, [...]  I’m of the opinion that the word “additional” in the quote in the heading may create a false impression that there’s much oversight going on of the CIA’s drone assassinations. Rolling Stone has a very interesting and horrifying article by Michael Hastings about the use of drones for killing purported terrorists, sort out the differences in [...] This one feels almost as much ancient history as “Deep Throat Revealed!” did a couple of years ago, but here it is anyway. In Texas Monthly, Joe Hagan, who has been covering this story for years, has lots of dot-connecting and some new details about Bush’s national guard service, both the question of how [...] Seriously. Last night, CNN had on Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom. He was asked whether there is a concern that Romney had been forced to tack so for to the right it would hurt him with moderate voters, he answered, “Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s [...] Last week on his HBO show, Bill Maher announced a clip filmed by Alexandra Pelosi that was purporting to show the folks who were going to vote in the Republican primary in Mississippi. Pelosi (daughter of former speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi) had made her reputation with the documentary Journeys with George, based [...] On election night, the Clarion Ledger had a great map showing results by county (I cannot find it now on their wonderful website. The closest I can do is the one above, from Huffington Post). Notice how you can discern traditional Mississippi regions in this map. What interested me is the way the [...] This is an existential act. That is, I’m doing this not because I think it will make a diference (persuade the confused), but because I think I ought to do it. I’m flabergasted that someone in comments suggested that Obama was the worst American president. This suggests to me what the writer might know [...] On my home phone last night, there was a message from the Romney campaign: A robocall intended to convince me that Rick Santorum was not the Tea Party candidate and that he didn’t like them and they didn’t like him. This message was not calculated to motivate me, but then, I’m not sure what [...] With all the talk, I was wondering exactly what was happening to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, and whether it really mattered that, at the last count I saw, he’d lost 45 advertisers. That BoingBoing link points to a Media Matters page, where they’re logging commercials on Limbaugh’s show, and whether the advertisers still there [...] The Daily Journal ran a Bobby Harrison piece about the Supreme Court argument in the pardon case yesterday. If you want to see it for yourself, Kingfish has the video up. The Sun Herald has a story about Steve Holland’s Gulf of Mexico bill, describing Holland as “a populist Democrat known for [...] |
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