Month: November 2004
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“Clown Car”
Talk about black humor in the midst of war.
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A Thanksgiving story
I don’t know if I believe it, but here’s an amusing story told by the Green Bay Packers’ Darren Sharper in the latest issue of Sports Illustrated: “I was in Little League football, eight or nine years old, and somebody stole all the footballs before our Thanksgiving game. Some crackhead probably. We had to play
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Cheap shot alert
Kitty Kelley takes the following
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Congressional partisanship not so new
This Washington Post article portrays House Speaker Denny Hastert’s announcement that he won’t bring bills to the floor that aren’t supported by a majority of Republicans as new and noteworthy. In a certain sense, of course, that’s true. But the howls of indignation from various good government types in the story seem vastly overblown. A
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Thanks campaign finance reform!
According UMass prof Ray La Raja, Congressional challengers who lost but held incumbents under 60% of the vote were outspent by an average of $894,000 in 2004 according to Campaign Finance Institute data. This was a significant increase from 2000 and 2002. Thanks campaign finance reform! (For more on the problems with campaign finance reform,
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Chait on Hillary
In his new LA Times column, Jon Chait smacks around the idea that Hillary Clinton is a strong presidential candidate: A secular Yankee like [Howard] Dean is about the worst possible candidate. Unless, of course, the alternative is Hillary Clinton. OK, maybe she wouldn’t be worse than Dean. But she surely would go down in
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What B-list celebrities do in their spare time
Apparently, they
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From the dept. of ridiculous analogies
Sighted in today’s
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Matthews reinvents history again
Media Matters catches Chris Matthews making up ridiculous stories after the fact about the election – one of his favorite tactics. See the Daily Howler for more on how Matthews completely changed his story on the Gore/Bush debates in his book to conform to the dominant media narrative. Why do pundits feel such a compulsion
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The tired Slate formula
Fresh from publishing a tacit endorsement of vote fraud, Slate has found someone to be annoyingly, mechanically counter-intuitive on the Indiana-Detroit riot: Sure, it was wrong for Artest to run into the stands, and wrong for Jackson to run in after him throwing haymakers, and wrong for the fans to douse the Indiana players with