Sam Boyd

You can’t make this stuff up: Obama is chuckling all the way to the White House. He knows that McCain is token competition, and that this election is merely an exhibition contest. Had the GOP base unified behind a Romney or a Thompson or a Hunter, Obama would be in for a real fight. That’s […]

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist announced today that the state is buying 187,000 acres of land (an area approximately the size of New York City) near the Everglades from U.S. Sugar. The company, the nation’s largest sugar cane manufacturer, is going out of business. This, combined with a land swap with another sugar producer, will restore […]

A lot of people have portrayed Obama‘s decision to campaign hard in places like Alaska, Texas, and Wyoming as an example of hubris — comparable to the Bush campaign’s last-minute expenditures in California in 2000 or New Jersey in 2004. But as Michael Turk at The Next Right speculated last night and Ben Smith confirms […]

Just in case you weren’t convinced or needed to prove the point to someone. Via Jessica at Feministing. –Sam Boyd

So last week the AP decided that it would start threatening to sue people who used as few as 6 words of its news stories without paying (and it sent takedown notices to the drudge report retort on stories which quoted as few as 39 words). This is legally highly dubious, to say the least. […]

Guess we’d better reconsider this whole universal health-care thing… –Sam Boyd

Some drugstores are starting to refuse to sell contraceptives (including condoms). This, understandably, worries a lot of people who think contraceptives should be available to women everywhere. Slate’s ever-contrary Will Saletan isn’t worried. Trouble is, his is an argument that’s been made time and time again and it’s still pretty dumb. First off, he says […]

While he’s managed to screw up many aspects of his campaign, John McCain‘s logo has actually been fairly popular. It had the lone military star, a relatively classy look, and used the same font as the Vietnam War Memorial. So it comes as something of a surprise that he’s decided to completely change it and […]

This is a tribute: Mr Obama’s candidacy was given an early boost by his opposition to the Iraq war and he has repeatedly said the US needs to rethink its approach to the Middle East. Mr Danzig spelt out the need to change by reading a paragraph from chapter one of the children’s classic, which […]

According to his family he died of a heart attack. He was 58. –Sam Boyd