Obama's buried homage to Einstein: God loves science
I swear, Barack Obama has been reading my mail. Just this morning, walking the dogs with the fella and processing the appearance of Richard "anyone-who-believes-in-God-is-an-idiot" Dawkins on Bill...
View ArticlePolygamy for Dummies (Two books that help)
I'm taking a break from the all-BitterGate format to recommend a couple of books I serendipitously happened to read recently. Both have helped me process the freaky events coming out of the Texas...
View ArticleWhy Clintons Can't Build a Coalition (and Obama Can)
Remember Lani Guinier? In 1993, then-President Bill Clinton nominated her for assistant attorney general for civil rights. She was born to the post, a brilliant, eloquent law scholar, the daughter of a...
View ArticleRev. Wright Speaks; David Gergen Spins
So, I pick up a few snippets of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's interview with Bill Moyers, which I guess will air in its entirety tomorrow night. And I think, as I watch him, "Oh good. Now the American viewing...
View ArticleHelp People. I Need an Obama-vention.
Okay, here’s how it is. You can lambaste me, ridicule me, delete me, deny me, kick me off Kos forever, but I assure you, I am not alone, and if you silence one you disagree with because it makes you...
View ArticleErik Rush Broke the Wright Story; ABC Made It Big
This is a longer-than-a-comment response to carldavidson's diary, which is here, and in which Tom Hayden asks, via carldavidson, who stirred the Wright pot in the first place. Who obtained the tapes...
View ArticleConsolation for Clinton Feminists: Obama is the Better Woman
As I begin to write this, My fiancé and I are sitting in the Wolfgang Puck bar at LAX watching the Indiana returns on my iPhone. When I shriek, "The margin's down to 16,000!" a woman at the end of the...
View ArticleObama's Appalachia problem: It's not white people. It's coal.
In this election season 2008, the coal mining industry has given almost twice as much to Hillary Clinton’s campaign as it has to Barack Obama’s. Those contributions came almost all in the form of...
View ArticleYou say Osama, I say Obama: On Faux News and Fake Mistakes
There is no way any expert on national television in late May 2008 who says Osama in place of Obama has simply made an honest mistake. If any pundit, interviewee or newspaper mogul does mix up their...
View ArticleSaying Goodbye to Sydney: He Never Sold Out
I know that sophistry makes me tired has already diaried the official obit (which I appreciate), but I have a little more to say about Sydney Pollack, who died tonight at 73, than can reasonably fit in...
View ArticleYucca Mountain is Moving
I know that at this moment many of you have begun to feel a little queasy about the constant stream of forecasting pundits, the mindless patter about what Hillary wants, the guffawing critics of John...
View ArticleWhy I Want a President Who Talks to Our Enemies
Slate's Fred Kaplan last night posted what is, to my mind, the best answer so far to the question of whether it's right to sit down with hostile foreign leaders. As he points out, this is the "question...
View ArticleWhat Will We Do With All Those Pregnant Teenagers?
It was a sight to behold: Sarah Palin, after her triumphant debut, parading her young brood on the stage of the Xcel Center, John McCain striding like grandpa among them. I admire their courage, their...
View ArticleNew Rasmussen: Americans Bounced For Sarah
I originally ran across this in Glenn Greenwald's column, but I couldn't quite believe it so I had to look for myself. And it's true. Not only is Sarah "Pitbull" Palin beloved (i.e., viewed "Very...
View ArticlePutin in Germany. Iraq Borders Pakistan. McCain on Spain
There's something magical about the number three. In hockey, it's a hat trick. In baseball, you get three outs. In marriage, the third one's supposed to last best. In politics, if you make three gaffes...
View ArticleNY Times: McCain's Rick Davis Helped Fannie and Freddie Beat Regs
Talk about blowback: McCain's recent ads painting Obama as in the Fannie/Freddie pocket didn't sit well with some significant people. As the New York Times reports tonight: Incensed by the...
View ArticleWhy Feminists Reject Sarah Palin: A Manifesto (for Charles Krauthammer)
It's been nagging me for days: Charles Krauthammer, on Fox News, claims to be perplexed as to why feminists hate Sarah Palin, and offers his own explanation: "[It's] her decision at her age with four...
View ArticleMcCain in Full Flounder on "Meet the Press" (with Video)
John McCain was at his most tragic this morning on "Meet the Press" when he tried to name the former Secretaries of State who endorsed him. "Henry Kissinger, Jim Baker, Larry Eagleburger. . . . " He...
View Article"I Guess I Gotta Get Past You. I Gotta Vote For That Black Kid."
The fella and I got married on Sunday in New York City, in a lovely, small ceremony at the top of the Beekman Tower. Our wedding party was bipartisan, so we kept talk of politics to a dull murmur....
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Sarah Palin Raises America's Factory Farm Food Consciousness
Everybody's all freaked out and horrified by the Sarah Palin-Turkey Killing video, but Jesus, people, why? Are you all about bunch of vegans? Do you somehow forget that the bird on your Thanksgiving...
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