If you're looking for some alternative political listening for this long, long Election Day, check out this segment from the October 24 episode of WNYC's "On the Media," which handily debunks the myth of the Bradley effect: Ghost of Bradley Present
I just got home from early voting and dropping █████ off at her el station. We had touchscreen voting machines with paper ballot receipts that scrolled under glass. I have to say, it was a pretty slick and reassuring way to vote, though it lacked the visceral satisfaction of those New
A long but worthwhile exhortation from Craig Ferguson to study the issues and listen to yourself when you vote. Long but very worthwhile. (Via ❦parttimedriver.)
Here are a set of three very different articles, different in every way, one for each of the three beauty queens in John McCain's life: The Daily Mail on Carol McCain: "The Wife U.S. Republican John McCain Callously Left Behind" by Sharon Churcher The New
Sarah Palin doesn't know what the Bush Doctrine is, and her embarrassing attempts to weasel a clue out of Charles Gibson are not even worthy of a high-school forensics student: Yes, Mrs. Palin, obviously you're ready to be President. I will sleep without nightmares knowing you
NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered have begun a fascinating joint series that convenes a panel of voters from York, Pennsylvania, for a roundtable discussion of race and how it affects the 2008 election. (Part 1 is here, and Part 2 is here.) Sadly, some of the
Seven years on, what does September 11th mean? Nothing. Perhaps it would be less confrontational to say it means everything, or anything. I had a terrible argument with a relative of mine during those bleak last months of 2001. I said something to the effect that a person's
I like the part in this Paul Begala editorial at CNN.com where he calls Lieberman McCain's "fellow Iraq Kool-Aid drinker." Now I'm logging off. Really.
In July Sarah Palin asked, facetiously, what it is the vice-president really does: Granted, she seemed to be using levity to deflect the question of whether or not she would be a McCain VP pick, but she sounds pretty silly in the process. Maybe she should have read last year&
If this is true, McCain and the Republicans are going hard after disgruntled female Clinton supporters. Now I'm very afraid.
I would like to see someone create one of those quizzie thingies to help people tell whether their dog is a Democrat or a Republican. I'd do it myself but I don't have the bandwidth. The question occurred to me this morning as I was getting
The mere sound of Dubya's voice makes my skin crawl at the best of times: the petulance in it, the nervous laugh that always accompanies the dopey statements he thinks should be self-evident, the lack of any statesmanlike timbre whatsoever. Whenever he opens his mouth to address an
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