2008

Oct

Blog break continues.

Doing most of my business over at Twitter for the moment. Join me there, don’t you?

“By keeping my mouth shut.”
— The late Frank...

Obama attempts post-debate high-five; McCain, unfamiliar...

"It used to be easy to recognize...

Light blogging continues, but I’ll be back soon. (To...

McCain Staff Memo (not for...

1) This guy2) The O-Man 3) Barry Barry Bo-Barry, Bana-Fana Fo Farry4) That one 5) Capt. Happy, here...

Donna Brazile at The New Yorker Festival.

Blog break!

Everybody dance!

Cinematic Titanic's Frank Conniff on...

“…The fact that (Palin) might not flub every answer...”
— Bob Cesca’s prediction...

Your one-stop Sarah Palin shop. (Thanks,...

Photo: Robyn Lee Ladies and gentlemen, from the pages of A...

“I don’t know that I ever directed him; I cast him. And then...”
— Director Robert Benton on Paul...

Sep

McCain holds Iowa economic roundtable in a cargo container,...

You know those iPods that come pre-loaded...

Paging Dr. Turing. Dr. Turing, call your...

Q: What is your foreign policy experience? A: I am so proud of his independent and strong decision...

Hey, who's in charge all up in here?

I admire Rachel Maddow for her wit and humor and also her limitless selection of stylish jackets,...

There! That settles it, dontcha know!

Couric: Gov. Palin, since our last interview, you’ve gotten a lot of flak. Some Republicans...

Posts may be thin for a while.

The wifi is spotty here in the safe room, and the enormous stocks of bullets and gold bars...

McCain's unwillingness to look at Obama:...

“The candidate who wants to quash any suspicion that he is...”
— James Fallows, The Atlantic,...

This is a link to the latest update of Joshua...

“I want to be done playing this lady November 5th. So if...”
— Tina Fey on Sarah Palin,...

I swear to God, nobody does fake humility better than a TV...

Kodachrome may be going the way of...

…according to this AP story. If you want to know why that would be a shame: This is what...

If you want to see the difference between a...

Maureen Down figures out how to publish a...

“The Republicans have discovered that McCain can’t draw a...”
— Gail Collins, The New York...

Top 15 modernist gas stations. (Via PCL LinkDump.)

#14: "All I know is, as long as I led...

The fifty greatest things the great Charles Barkley ever said. (39 days to NBA basketball, baby!)

The Great Schlep.

I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen...

Easy, honey. You don’t get to have Daddy’s chair for eight years. (WARNING: Contains...

The American Prospect's Adam Serwer on how...

The Palin bump evaporates, and the lines cross....

My comprehensive five-point energy plan.

We’re shipping our energy dollars overseas like it’s going out of style. But you know...

Fiorina to "disappear" from visible campaign...

Diageo/Hotline poll: Palin's...

Note: To be fair, it did take three whole days.

You want to talk electoral math? Here's...

Dollar value of earmarks John McCain claims Sarah Palin has requested as governor of Alaska:...

What should happen tonight at Columbia...

SCENE: A backstage green room. Senators Barack Obama and John McCain wait to appear at a forum...

Do me a favor, John: Don't be on my...

There are a number of good reasons why Barack Obama should “release his righteous rage,”...

Wiretap Follies.

Kinko's: RIP.

FedEx Kinko’s has rebranded itself FedEx Office, completing the eradication of the...

Give ‘em hell, Joe.

“Jesus Is a Friend of Mine,” by Sonseed. Thanks to Mark Fraunfelder for the link. This...

I don't know what's more depressing: The...

Instead of letting Palin talk directly and frequently to the press, the McCain campaign will dress...

Oh, for Pete's sake... It's a FAKE.

“What did you guys expect? I anticipated this last Thursday...”
— Barack Obama, asked if...

The Biden trap.

Just a thought: Jim Fallows, among others, suggests that the tone of Palin’s RNC speech...

On Sarah Palin's likability.

If you work at home and are distractable like me and you tend to listen to cable news at a low...

“There is a tendency in the media to kick ourselves, cringe...”
— Joe Klein, TIME.com (via...

AP fact-checks the Palin speech.

Treat every gun like it’s loaded, and every mic like it’s open. GOP political operatives...

Fred Thompson's RNC speech was the most...

Recycled from Twitter. All rights reserved. Have a nice day.

"I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've...

(Joe Vogler; founder, Alaskan Independence Party) This would be the advocacy group of which Sarah...

…Ouch. A scrappy Campbell Brown takes it to McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds on the question of...

I Stayed Up With Jerry.

Aug

“She’s old enough. She’s a US citizen.”
— Alaska State House Speaker...

London. From above. At night. Photography by Jason Hawkes,...

Palin: "Whenever possible, my recommendation...

We’re through the looking glass, people. Pat Buchanan — yes, that Pat Buchanan —...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Stunning New...

An invention of sheer genius… and yet, somehow, not all that improbable. By...

Scenes from HODG*CON 08, the first officially-sanctioned...

Sometimes history is anticlimactic. Moments after delivering the biggest speech of his life to...

“Women in this country don’t want to vote for a woman just...”
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz (via...

The most revealing video of the DNC.

The most revealing video of the DNC may be airing right now on MSNBC. (Go ahead, tune in....

Demonstrating the edgy, irreverent,...

Oh, by the way...

…you remember how I suggested down below that Bill Clinton would be all petulant and cranky...

ACME Pens at The Daily Planner… the coolest $62...

And you! Intern! Get me a sandwich! With...

As the nightly bar fight that is MSNBC’s convention coverage prepares to pack up and move to...

Right, because you'd never want a war...

There’s a theme that recurs in your books and your speeches, both about putting country first...

If, like me, you missed John Kerry’s flamethrowing DNC speech because MSNBC was airing more of...

Felix Gillette followed Rachel Maddow around...

Dear Bill: In the name of God, please...

Wondering if Bill Clinton will cowboy up and embrace the Democratic nominee with his whole heart in...

A Minority View: What Hillary Didn't...

Over a long and punishing primary season I had a chance to observe Barack Obama up close, and get to...

Instapaper Pro: Now -- yes! -- a full...

The best software exploits the unique capabilities of its platform, identifies annoyances in the...

"If that's his baby, he needs help."

This is what 10 meters looks like.

"But I am reasonably certain, my friends,...

The best musicians you've never heard of.

…I call it justice. Via Jerry Beck.

Instapaper: Now 20% awesomer.

Top-earning celebrity chef? Not Mario. Not...

Bernie Mac. If you want to see a man kill, and I mean absolutely kill, watch this. Bernie Mac had...

Hillary to Dems: "Nice little convention...

Ah, Facebook. You know me so well.

“…Your Congress just went on vacation for five weeks....”
— John McCain, who has missed...

I haven’t seen “Mad Men” lately, but wow, Joan has really let herself...

You know what? If CNN produced a phalanx of...

Obama on offshore oil: "I'd tap that."

“I got chocolate and vanillaSometimes I even swirlBut...

“Well, there’s good news and bad news. We can...

Jul

Cheech & Chong: The reunion tour.

John McCain on the heavy mantle of decency:...

A Computer Glossary: Early nerd porn from Charles and Ray Eames. Via Laughing Squid. Well, that...

Rush tries their own song, “Tom Sawyer,” on Rock Band backstage at The Colbert Report....

Heavens!

Most of us understand that movie bullets aren’t going to suddenly fly out of the screen and...

Aw hells yeah. When you’re having a good week, you’re having a good week....

Jacques Kaplan, 83, Bold Furrier, Dies.

Fabulous (fully functional) USB drive. Via Gearfuse.

Mo’s Bacon Bar. Insouciant yet persnickety, this new...

Combining the nightmarish man-puppets of...

An idea so transcendently bad on so many levels that it almost achieves the status of art: Sid &...

In the summertime, when the shameless self-promotion is...

Via Laughing Squid, a fantastic kinetic sculpture at the BMW Museum in Munich. One interesting...

“Among the cliffhangers: Two crooks throw Batman, arms and...”
— Over at HuffPo, Erik...

8 Aesthetically Awesome Abandoned Theaters. (Via Coudal.)

It continues to seem unimaginable that, face to face in a general election campaign, Barack Obama...

You know, there are lots of things that belong in the sky....

God finally busts Madame Marie.

Hip '70s reference, though.

Jun

Best headline ever?

Why I Love Ed Rendell (#2 in a...

“Bill’s my friend. If that’s true, the way he feels, he’s gotta shake it...

“I know this was a hard fought primary campaign, and I am...”
— Hillary Clinton, cowboying up...

Every writer’s dream.

“Hey, how you doing. Good to see you. Dae-Ho, Bae,...

"Ist this thing on? Danke, danke, I'll be...

"Plus we got us some Meskins who keep the...

The only tools a working freelancer really needs. (Thanks...

I wish I knew why I love this as much as I do. (Via Fresh To Death. It seems worth noting that this...

So you know I’m a fan of You Look Nice Today. And if you don’t, well, you should. But I...

"I hope we made you proud."

“Mr. Irresponsible”: The word cloud edition. A...

Be a basketball columnist! It's easy!

“Rock, of course, had barbs for the presumed presidential...”
— The AP, doing its best to...

RNC also aghast that Obama apparently...

“So cheerleaders, help me out… ” An amazing discovery: 35 years after I first...

Best bad movie... ever?

Rendell for VP?

Buzz Bissinger, who profiled Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell in the utterly fantastic “A...

"It all began simply enough, Ms. Sherry...

The precise place where I stopped reading this story in today’s New York Times.

Over at Twitter, Dave Winer passes along this...

God bless Secret Fun Blog and its...

Like this: Go there now.

“I want to open up transparency in government, so that you...”
— Excerpt from Obama speech to...

At the Western democracies' annual...

What to do with the Clintons?

MSNBC’s Hardball is asking at this hour: “What to do with the Clintons?” This blog...

The Simpsons… Live action. Wait. In Spanish. (Thank you, thank you, thank you to Coudal.)