2008
Oct
Blog break continues.
Doing most of my business over at Twitter for the moment. Join me there, don’t you?
Oct 21st
By keeping my mouth shut.
— The late Frank...
Oct 16th
Obama attempts post-debate high-five; McCain, unfamiliar...
Oct 16th
"It used to be easy to recognize...
Oct 16th
Light blogging continues, but I’ll be back soon. (To...
Oct 15th
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...
Oct 9th
Donna Brazile at The New Yorker Festival.
Oct 8th
Blog break!
Everybody dance!
Oct 6th
Cinematic Titanic's Frank Conniff on...
Oct 3rd
…The fact that (Palin) might not flub every answer...
— Bob Cesca’s prediction...
Oct 2nd
Your one-stop Sarah Palin shop. (Thanks,...
Oct 2nd
Watch
Oct 2nd
Photo: Robyn Lee Ladies and gentlemen, from the pages of A...
Oct 2nd
I don’t know that I ever directed him; I cast him. And then...
— Director Robert Benton on Paul...
Oct 1st
Sep
McCain holds Iowa economic roundtable in a cargo container,...
Sep 30th
You know those iPods that come pre-loaded...
Sep 30th
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...
Sep 30th
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,...
Sep 30th
There! That settles it, dontcha know!
Couric: Gov. Palin, since our last interview, you’ve gotten a lot of flak. Some Republicans...
Sep 29th
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...
Sep 29th
McCain's unwillingness to look at Obama:...
Sep 27th
The candidate who wants to quash any suspicion that he is...
— James Fallows, The Atlantic,...
Sep 25th
This is a link to the latest update of Joshua...
Sep 24th
I want to be done playing this lady November 5th. So if...
— Tina Fey on Sarah Palin,...
Sep 22nd
I swear to God, nobody does fake humility better than a TV...
Sep 22nd
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...
Sep 21st
If you want to see the difference between a...
Sep 21st
Maureen Down figures out how to publish a...
Sep 21st
The Republicans have discovered that McCain can’t draw a...
— Gail Collins, The New York...
Sep 20th
Top 15 modernist gas stations. (Via PCL LinkDump.)
Sep 20th
#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!)
Sep 19th
The Great Schlep.
Sep 19th
I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen...
Sep 19th
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Easy, honey. You don’t get to have Daddy’s chair for eight years. (WARNING: Contains...
Sep 18th
The American Prospect's Adam Serwer on how...
Sep 18th
The Palin bump evaporates, and the lines cross....
Sep 18th
My comprehensive five-point energy plan.
We’re shipping our energy dollars overseas like it’s going out of style. But you know...
Sep 17th
Fiorina to "disappear" from visible campaign...
Sep 17th
Diageo/Hotline poll: Palin's...
Note: To be fair, it did take three whole days.
Sep 17th
You want to talk electoral math? Here's...
Dollar value of earmarks John McCain claims Sarah Palin has requested as governor of Alaska:...
Sep 13th
What should happen tonight at Columbia...
SCENE: A backstage green room. Senators Barack Obama and John McCain wait to appear at a forum...
Sep 11th
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,”...
Sep 11th
Wiretap Follies.
Sep 8th
Kinko's: RIP.
FedEx Kinko’s has rebranded itself FedEx Office, completing the eradication of the...
Sep 7th
Watch
Give ‘em hell, Joe.
Sep 6th
Watch
“Jesus Is a Friend of Mine,” by Sonseed. Thanks to Mark Fraunfelder for the link. This...
Sep 5th
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...
Sep 5th
Oh, for Pete's sake... It's a FAKE.
Sep 5th
What did you guys expect? I anticipated this last Thursday...
— Barack Obama, asked if...
Sep 4th
The Biden trap.
Just a thought: Jim Fallows, among others, suggests that the tone of Palin’s RNC speech...
Sep 4th
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...
Sep 4th
There is a tendency in the media to kick ourselves, cringe...
— Joe Klein, TIME.com (via...
Sep 4th
AP fact-checks the Palin speech.
Sep 4th
Sep 3rd
Watch
Treat every gun like it’s loaded, and every mic like it’s open. GOP political operatives...
Sep 3rd
Fred Thompson's RNC speech was the most...
Recycled from Twitter. All rights reserved. Have a nice day.
Sep 3rd
"I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've...
(Joe Vogler; founder, Alaskan Independence Party) This would be the advocacy group of which Sarah...
Sep 2nd
Watch
…Ouch. A scrappy Campbell Brown takes it to McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds on the question of...
Sep 2nd
I Stayed Up With Jerry.
Sep 1st
Aug
She’s old enough. She’s a US citizen.
— Alaska State House Speaker...
Aug 31st
London. From above. At night. Photography by Jason Hawkes,...
Aug 30th
Palin: "Whenever possible, my recommendation...
Aug 30th
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We’re through the looking glass, people. Pat Buchanan — yes, that Pat Buchanan —...
Aug 29th
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Stunning New...
An invention of sheer genius… and yet, somehow, not all that improbable. By...
Aug 29th
Scenes from HODG*CON 08, the first officially-sanctioned...
Aug 29th
Watch
Sometimes history is anticlimactic. Moments after delivering the biggest speech of his life to...
Aug 29th
Women in this country don’t want to vote for a woman just...
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz (via...
Aug 29th
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....
Aug 28th
Demonstrating the edgy, irreverent,...
Aug 28th
Oh, by the way...
…you remember how I suggested down below that Bill Clinton would be all petulant and cranky...
Aug 28th
ACME Pens at The Daily Planner… the coolest $62...
Aug 28th
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...
Aug 28th
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...
Aug 28th
Watch
If, like me, you missed John Kerry’s flamethrowing DNC speech because MSNBC was airing more of...
Aug 28th
Felix Gillette followed Rachel Maddow around...
Aug 27th
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...
Aug 27th
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...
Aug 27th
Instapaper Pro: Now -- yes! -- a full...
The best software exploits the unique capabilities of its platform, identifies annoyances in the...
Aug 26th
"If that's his baby, he needs help."
Aug 25th
This is what 10 meters looks like.
Aug 22nd
"But I am reasonably certain, my friends,...
Aug 21st
The best musicians you've never heard of.
Aug 16th
…I call it justice. Via Jerry Beck.
Aug 16th
Instapaper: Now 20% awesomer.
Aug 16th
Top-earning celebrity chef? Not Mario. Not...
Aug 13th
Watch
Bernie Mac. If you want to see a man kill, and I mean absolutely kill, watch this. Bernie Mac had...
Aug 9th
Hillary to Dems: "Nice little convention...
Aug 7th
Ah, Facebook. You know me so well.
Aug 6th
…Your Congress just went on vacation for five weeks....
— John McCain, who has missed...
Aug 5th
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I haven’t seen “Mad Men” lately, but wow, Joan has really let herself...
Aug 5th
You know what? If CNN produced a phalanx of...
Aug 5th
Obama on offshore oil: "I'd tap that."
Aug 4th
“I got chocolate and vanillaSometimes I even swirlBut...
Aug 4th
“Well, there’s good news and bad news. We can...
Aug 1st
Jul
Cheech & Chong: The reunion tour.
Jul 30th
John McCain on the heavy mantle of decency:...
Jul 28th
Watch
A Computer Glossary: Early nerd porn from Charles and Ray Eames. Via Laughing Squid. Well, that...
Jul 28th
Watch
Rush tries their own song, “Tom Sawyer,” on Rock Band backstage at The Colbert Report....
Jul 25th
Heavens!
Most of us understand that movie bullets aren’t going to suddenly fly out of the screen and...
Jul 24th
Watch
Aw hells yeah. When you’re having a good week, you’re having a good week....
Jul 22nd
Jacques Kaplan, 83, Bold Furrier, Dies.
Jul 22nd
Fabulous (fully functional) USB drive. Via Gearfuse.
Jul 18th
Mo’s Bacon Bar. Insouciant yet persnickety, this new...
Jul 14th
Combining the nightmarish man-puppets of...
An idea so transcendently bad on so many levels that it almost achieves the status of art: Sid &...
Jul 11th
In the summertime, when the shameless self-promotion is...
Jul 9th
Watch
Via Laughing Squid, a fantastic kinetic sculpture at the BMW Museum in Munich. One interesting...
Jul 9th
Among the cliffhangers: Two crooks throw Batman, arms and...
— Over at HuffPo, Erik...
Jul 8th
8 Aesthetically Awesome Abandoned Theaters. (Via Coudal.)
Jul 8th
Watch
It continues to seem unimaginable that, face to face in a general election campaign, Barack Obama...
Jul 8th
You know, there are lots of things that belong in the sky....
Jul 8th
God finally busts Madame Marie.
Jul 2nd
Hip '70s reference, though.
Jul 2nd
Jun
Best headline ever?
Jun 30th
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...
Jun 27th
I know this was a hard fought primary campaign, and I am...
— Hillary Clinton, cowboying up...
Jun 26th
Every writer’s dream.
Jun 26th
“Hey, how you doing. Good to see you. Dae-Ho, Bae,...
Jun 26th
"Ist this thing on? Danke, danke, I'll be...
Jun 25th
"Plus we got us some Meskins who keep the...
Jun 24th
The only tools a working freelancer really needs. (Thanks...
Jun 24th
Watch
I wish I knew why I love this as much as I do. (Via Fresh To Death. It seems worth noting that this...
Jun 23rd
Watch
So you know I’m a fan of You Look Nice Today. And if you don’t, well, you should. But I...
Jun 23rd
"I hope we made you proud."
Jun 19th
“Mr. Irresponsible”: The word cloud edition. A...
Jun 16th
Be a basketball columnist! It's easy!
Jun 16th
Rock, of course, had barbs for the presumed presidential...
— The AP, doing its best to...
Jun 16th
RNC also aghast that Obama apparently...
Jun 14th
Listen
“So cheerleaders, help me out… ” An amazing discovery: 35 years after I first...
Jun 14th
Best bad movie... ever?
Jun 13th
Rendell for VP?
Buzz Bissinger, who profiled Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell in the utterly fantastic “A...
Jun 12th
"It all began simply enough, Ms. Sherry...
The precise place where I stopped reading this story in today’s New York Times.
Jun 12th
Over at Twitter, Dave Winer passes along this...
Jun 12th
God bless Secret Fun Blog and its...
Like this: Go there now.
Jun 12th
I want to open up transparency in government, so that you...
— Excerpt from Obama speech to...
Jun 11th
At the Western democracies' annual...
Jun 11th
What to do with the Clintons?
MSNBC’s Hardball is asking at this hour: “What to do with the Clintons?” This blog...
Jun 10th
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The Simpsons… Live action. Wait. In Spanish. (Thank you, thank you, thank you to Coudal.)
Jun 10th