HELP! Maybe somebody has a suggestion here for a technodoofus such as myself. I can�t watch videos on my home computer. They start to download, but the typical experience is that if a YouTube clip is, say, 4:16 seconds, the little bar that tells you how much of the clip has downloaded gets about one-third […]
Michael Tomasky
Michael Tomasky is the American editor-at-large of the Guardian (UK). He was executive editor of the Prospect from 2003 to 2006.
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MANNING — IT FIGURES.
MANNING — IT FIGURES. I knew I wasn�t crazy about Peyton Manning. To me, he�s a great 1980s quarterback — a classic pocket passer with zero mobility who, if he has to run, looks like he�s carrying a beach chair on his back. He�s been very lucky to have a great offensive line that minimizes […]
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GREAT PIECE ALERT.
GREAT PIECE ALERT. Check out this terrific Guardian scoop on AEI offering scientists $10,000 to produce studies refuting the UN global warming report. AEI has received, the article also notes (while not specifying a time period), $1.6 million from Exxon-Mobil. This, on the same day the Times reports that Exxon reported record profits again — […]
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I Don’t Like Sundays
Predictably enough — who am I to try and outfox the demographers? — I’m a National Public Radio listener. The radio presets in the house and car include an R&B station and C-SPAN radio (laugh if you wish). But the first two slots are dedicated to WAMU, the NPR affiliate that broadcasts […]
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NO, THIS IS…
NO, THIS IS THE BEST ONE. Without doubt, Kapuscinski�s greatest book is Shah of Shahs. I read it long ago. I remember I was over at my friend David�s house, and he was out doing something, so I just picked up this thin book off his shelf that looked sort of interesting. I was spellbound. […]
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Swing and a Miss
Back in 2001, the Republicans who then controlled the Michigan state legislature approved a successfully partisan redistricting plan. They managed to pit two incumbent House Democrats against each other — and one of them wasn’t just any incumbent. Back in 2001, the Republicans who then controlled the Michigan state legislature approved […]
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VPOTUS?
VPOTUS? It�s pretty clear that Jim Webb tore it up last night. Aside from that odd reference to the �seventh� time Bush has spoken on energy independence in a SOTU (he�s given six), he was on fire, as my pal BB from Albany put it. I don�t think there was one clich� in the whole […]
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THE NAME GAME, CONT�D.
THE NAME GAME, CONT�D. OK, here�s my two cents on the subject: How about HRC? I’m with Ezra on brevity and specificity. And you can�t really get any more brief and specific than three initials that are pretty much as instantly process-able as LBJ and JFK. But I disagree with Ezra on another point. He […]
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(Mostly) Wrong Again
As infuriatingly as ever, liberal and Democratic hawks are out peddling a new round of admonitions against us America-hating, intellectually incoherent, abject pacifists. We may have been right to oppose the war in Iraq, but As infuriatingly as ever, liberal and Democratic hawks are out peddling a new round of admonitions against […]
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Things to Do in Denver When You’re A Dem
Like the man who warned King Louis on July 13 that there seemed to be a little trouble brewing out there, I realize I may be coming to this late. It appears from most of what I read that Denver is now the front-runner over New York for the site of the 2008 […]