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What’s So Special About a Team of Rivals?
What’s the Value of a Big Bonus?
What’s the Point of Daylight Time?
The black-white Oughts (both George W. Bush’s us-versus-them and the opposition’s are-you-f-ing-kidding-me response to it) will give way to a decade of contrarianism, where everything you know is wrong (and in [...]
Maybe Major League Baseball agreeing to push back the start of the notional Game 6 of the World Series so that Obama’s 30 minute feature won’t conflict with it? (h/t Atrios)
Girdwood Explains a Lot, or Have You Ever Really Looked at Your Hand?
Posted by Apocalypse Tom on July 30th, 2008
I hadn’t realized that Senator Ted Stevens (R-Indicted) has his home in Girdwood.
I spent a few weeks in Girdwood a number of years ago, and based on the amount of a certain herbal smoke that consistently wafted through the air during my morning walks, the Senator’s evaluation of the Internet as a “series of [...]
Question: oil is now at $135/barrel or so. At what price are the Blue Angels too embarrassed to fly this summer?
The talk of Obama asking Clinton to be his running mate is heating up again after her less-than-stellar performance last night in IN and NC.
Can I just say this would be a bad idea? And not only because you’d have Hillary’s negatives dragging down the ticket. Obama would be a [...]
After What Seems Like an Interminable Political Absence, Sex is Back!
Posted by Apocalypse Tom on March 10th, 2008
I didn’t see this one coming. Maybe the New Yorkers who hang out here feel differently?
Update: Looks like it wasn’t just the New Yorkers who were expecting something like this. Check out Matski’s post below for a more informed take on this story.
Is the fix in up here in wussy progressive Washington? Various sources are reporting that the Washington GOP watched Huckabee lead in the caucus by a point or two for most of the day yesterday. McCain seemed to take the lead by a point with around 75% of precincts reporting. When the count reached 87.2% [...]
Joe Trippi, Howard Dean’s famous campaign manager and king of the ‘netroots’, is joining the Edwards campaign. This makes me wonder, does Edwards’ continued presence help Hillary? And if so, is that poetic justice for the man who would have been the nominee in 2004?
Back in 2004, Will Saletan argued that Wes Clark [...]
When discussing political moves where there may be “more than meets the eye,” The Chief usually reminds me of the West Wing episode where President Bartlett, speaking to a TV show, “forgets” that the camera’s still recording and calls his opponent a “.22 caliber mind in a .357 world.” It later becomes clear that [...]
Now Playing: Episode 366
Obama staffs up, Detroit comes to DC and finally, Iraq and the US come to a security agreement.
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