By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Polls consistently show that you can get double-digit percentages of Republicans to endorse Condi Rice for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination. However, she usually does worse than other Republicans in head-to-head matchups against Democrats. It’s an interesting phenomenon, not so much for 2008 primary reasons (Condi’s chances of getting the […]
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Cheney and Firearms: It’s All in the Context
Two headlines on the front of the San Francisco Chronicle’s web page: 1. VP ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTS HUNTER And, a few headlines below … 2. RIGHT TAKES SHOTS AT BUSH Wishful thinking on Cheney’s part, anyone? After laughing until my sides hurt, I took a screengrab for posterity, and it’s after the jump.
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Cheney Shoots Someone
Shakes here…and I kid you not. Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday. Harry Whittington, 78, was “alert and doing fine” after Cheney sprayed Whittington with shotgun pellets on Saturday at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas, said property owner […]
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Tell the Scientists — the Enemy Is Here
By Neil the Ethical Werewolf From Pharyngula, we hear of the latest horror: Evangelist Ken Ham smiled at the 2,300 elementarystudents packed into pews, their faces rapt. With dinosaur puppets andsilly cartoons, he was training them to reject much of geology,paleontology and evolutionary biology as a sinister tangle of lies. “Boys and girls,” Ham said. […]
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Lad Lit
So there’s plenty of (so-called) Chick Lit out there, but aside from Nick Hornby, who’s holding down the dude side? Which is to say, I’m a big Hornby fan but have read all his books. I’m always hearing that he opened the door to the “lad lit” genre, but who stepped through it?
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And So It Begins…
Shakes here…turning an eye to the future and seeing the inevitable. Bush isn’t a popular president—hasn’t been for a good long time, even though the GOP and their dutiful shills have managed to convince a large swath of the mainstream media that 40% = beyond reproach. But with midterm elections coming, and multiple problems (known […]
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My Pet Wingnut: It’s All Ed Asner’s Fault
By Pepper of the Daily Pepper Why is it that, when right-wing bloggers are unhappy with the behavior of liberals, they immediately blame celebrities? James Lileks, he of the Screedblog, the Bleat, and the Backfence, chides all the celebrities whose names have been linked to World Can’t Wait antiwar protests. Lileks compares their antiwar protest […]
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Kids and Grown-Ups These Days
Posted by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math The latest Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt campaign against the Internets has trained its guns on MySpace, which is now suddenly the home to countless sexual predators and the next Columbine shooters [more here]. In addition, we’re all supposed to be shocked — shocked! — that fourteen year-olds use […]
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The Keystone Race
Anger management consultant Ken Mehlman, who moonlights as chairman of the Republican National Committee, was in Southeastern Pennsylvania Wednesday talking about how frustrated some African Americans with being taken for granted by Democrats, and how much Hispanics wanted the country to deal with immigration issue. He hung out at Lincoln University, the historically black university […]
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The Friedan Mystique
In the first few days after Betty Friedan’s death, columnists seemed deeply divided about the relevance of her work today. Judith Warner in The New York Times found her description of the female “problem with no name” still fairly accurate, as marriage for the most part continues to be an unequal bargain between a primary […]