Brendan Nyhan

Twitter roundup

Here are some of the latest items from my Twitter feed (follow it!):
-Gallup reminds us that “President’s Support Usually Unaffected by State of Union”
-People whose job it is to write about politics know nothing about politics
-New York Times takes the lead in the “most insipid Haiti article to date” race
Moving tributes (PDF) to
David Foster Wallace (via Ari Kohen)
-Best celebrity memoir title ever? David Hasselhoff’s autobiography was called “Don’t Hassel the Hoff”
-The bail system is corrupt and unjust
-It seems somehow appropriate that Tommy Franks serves on the board of Chuck E. Cheese (via Peter Bergen)