Over at Hufpo, Nora Ephron turns her penetrating intellect on the role of White Men in the PA election.
But now there are two [candidates] and we’re facing Pennsylvania and whom are we kidding? This is an election about whether the people of Pennsylvania hate blacks more than they hate women. And when I say people, [...]
Posted on April 21st, 2008 by pwyll
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Hat tip to the Fresh Bilge blog, which I recently started reading. It introduced me to this amazing photograph, which deserves a wide audience.
Posted on April 20th, 2008 by pwyll
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Irresponsible journalism breeds irresponsible opinion. ABC News moderators George Stephanopoulos and Charles Gibson ambushed Barack Obama with grossly inappropriate questions concerning his ties to Jeremiah Wright, Jr. and dynamic social activist William Ayers. This is the fruit of ABC News’ shoddy and despicable moderation of Wednesday’s Democratic debate.
Consider this thought experiment: Assume that a [...]
Posted on April 19th, 2008 by pwyll
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One of the guilty pleasures of this election season is reading liberal opinion on the subject of Hillary. Here’s what John Cole of Balloon Juice had to say:
The woman is a moral black hole- soulless, empty, calculating and nasty all the way to her core (I know, I know- I just [...]
Posted on April 16th, 2008 by pwyll
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I know several of my readers are or were lawyers. You might enjoy this response from Blue Jean Cable to a cease and desist letter from Monster Cable. I did.
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by pwyll
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Note to self: stay out of the United Arab Emirates.
A father-of-three who was found with a microscopic speck of cannabis stuck to the bottom of one of his shoes has been sentenced to four years in a Dubai prison.
Keith Brown, a council youth development officer, was travelling through the United Arab Emirates on his way [...]
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by pwyll
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