With the way the upcoming election is being argued on both sides, I’m left to wonder when the tie-dye-shirt–wearing, stoned hippies start dancing around The Mall singing Blowing in the Wind. David S. Broder, in The Washington Post (registration required, sorry), nails it on the head: The only thing that will save the country —… Continue reading this entry
No wonder my blog, among others hosted at Matt’s, has been unreachable for the past few hours: Browse Happy was slashdotted. I have great confidence in Matt’s server capabilities, but no one can expect him to be watching the servers all the time: he’s a great guy with a life too. I’ve been a consistent… Continue reading this entry
“That means that ad and every other ad. I don’t believe we ought to have 527s. I think they’re bad for the system,” Bush said on Monday in Crawford, Texas. “I frankly thought we’d gotten rid of it when I signed McCain-Feingold” campaign finance reform. — Fox News: Kerry, Bush in Political Firefight I saw… Continue reading this entry
He lives well, who conceals himself well. — Ovid I apologize—but only to some extent—for my intentional, and unannounced disappearance of the past nine days. I arrived at a point where, despite all efforts, I can no longer find anything redeemable in what I have observed of late. So, instead of trying to fit a… Continue reading this entry
I’ll have to echo John Cole on this one. If the likes of Ezra Klein are jumping at the supposed humiliation that BushCo’s use of campaign material made in countries like Honduras and Haiti, would it not be also prudent to note that it saves the Bush campaign money? If this sort of nitpicking would… Continue reading this entry
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The woman who taught America’s cooks how to become chefs has ascended to the great kitchen in the sky. For the record: no TV chef since Julia Child will ever measure up to Julia Child. Not Martha Stewart, not Rachel Ray, not Alton Brown, and definitely not Bobby Flay and Emeril Lagasse. Do you hear… Continue reading this entry
Yesterday, the New Jersey’s Democrat governor Jim McGreevey announced that because he was gay, he was unfit for his position in office: Given the circumstances surrounding the affair and its likely impact upon my family and my ability to govern, I have decided the right course of action is to resign. At least not exactly.… Continue reading this entry
At least when it comes to those who feel it: When Visionz urban clothing opened its doors at Iverson Mall in January, the line looked a lot like the other 30 or so D.C.-based sportswear brands commanding upwards of $100 a T-shirt, with the same quality and workmanship, only it cost a lot less. Helped… Continue reading this entry
Boi From Troy observes that the Bush/Cheney campaign has moved to “try to prevent extremism in language on gay rights by some evangelical groups and on immigration by some of our conservatives,” which is praiseworthy, considering how it’s the fricking GOP we’re talking about here, and he gets jumped on in the comments. I don’t… Continue reading this entry