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Why SteveM at Balloon Juice, whom you’ve probably never heard of, is a better...
Because he says stuff like this: In all likelihood, we’ve got 2000 all over again. Romney now, like Bush then, hasn’t always spoken like a flaming wingnut throughout his political career (and didn’t...
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Generosity
I’m a little late to this, but apparently GOP presidential candidate and pre-Vatican II Iron Catholic Rick Santorum said this: I don’t believe in an America where the separation between church and...
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Quote of the Day, Aftermath of the Second Presidential Debate edition
Commenter Frank Armstrong at Charlie Pierce’s place: ”I think tonight Barack’s name was Inigo Montoya, and Willard did something bad to his father.” Filed under: Cool!, I want my country back., Quote...
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Buyer’s remorse, Zombie Election edition
To probably no one’s surprise, I voted for Obama. But this ad from film director Joss Whedon makes me think maybe that wasn’t such a hot idea. Filed under: America. It was a really good idea, Fun,...
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Pierce on Sandy and who we are as a nation
As I write, I imagine that all kinds of hell is breaking loose in the Northeast, the kinds of hell that, among other things, make it difficult to report in real time on what kinds of hell are breaking...
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Summing up
Outsourced to Pierce: It is vitally important that the Republican party be kept away from as much power as possible until the party regains its senses again. It is not just important to the advance of...
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I don’t usually gloat …
… but sometimes the levels of Stoopid demonstrated by people who REALLY OUGHT TO KNOW BETTER are just so off the charts that mockery is the only sane response. Exhibit A: Ladies and gentlemen, I give...
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Media criticism
Sarah, Proud and Tall, on Peggy Noonan, Our Lady of the Pickled Dolphins : Peggy thinks that the Joe Soptic Super PAC ad is an appalling personal attack that makes Obama “look perfidious and weak” and...
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Jay Rosen on what the media missed, and me on what we need to work hard to miss
NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen has posted a piece titled “A Miss Bigger Than a Missed Story,” his final reflection before the election on how badly U.S. media have lost the thread of this election....
View ArticleWhat’d we learn last night?
I’m going to start with what *I* learned: When my wife’s right, she’s right. I spent hours in front of the TV with my list of key races and ballot issues and didn’t go to bed until late. When I did, I...
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