May 2008
“Seeking to get to the bottom of a mystery that had been solved hours earlier,...”
– Sadly, No! » Best Bitch Slap EVAR
“Feeling for Scott McLellan. Nice getting savaged for saying what everyone knows...”
– Bush-Cheney eCampaign Director Mike Turk, on his Twitter feed.
Livin' La Vida Democrática →
Ricky Martin Endorses Hillary for President
Watch“Soy Barack Obama”
“Best of all, this story can be told backward and forward in time. Imagine that...”
– Does Time Run Backward in Other Universes?: Scientific American
Senator Stuart Smalley? →
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Minnesota shows Senator Norm Coleman (R) attracting 47% of the vote while challenger Al Franken earns 45% support. A month ago, Coleman was ahead 50% to 43%.
“Obama, the Illinois senator whose revolutionary online fundraising has...”
– FEC, media can’t handle Obama jackpot - Kenneth P. Vogel - Politico.com
McCain: so wrong, but so what? - Los Angeles Times →
“The NY Times today quotes a McCain campaign adviser defending the...”
– LiberalOasis - McCain Campaign Lies About The Polls
“I got to smell him, and it was awesome.”
– Where to Catch the Sights, Sound and Smell of a Campaign - NYTimes.com
“Movement conservatism started off as a racket. Movement conservatism has always...”
– Whiskey Fire: Lose Its Appeal Over Years
McCain spins like a top on immigration flip-flop -... →
For those keeping score at home, McCain does not support “comprehensive immigration reform.” Yes, he does. No, he doesn’t. Yes, he does. No, he doesn’t. Yes, he does. No, he doesn’t. Nearly all of these, by the way, come from the last six months.
Eurovision Season! →
What? Huh?
Calvinball Rules →
IMPORTANT — The following rules are subject to be changed, amended, or dismissed by any player(s) involved.
“Clinton’s campaign is using these ridiculous Calvinball metrics to...”
– Lawyers, Guns and Money: Clinton Campaign Self-Parody Watch
The Stupidity of Dignity (by Steven Pinker) →
“[H]ow well do the essayists clarify the concept of dignity? By their own admission, not very well. Almost every essayist concedes that the concept remains slippery and ambiguous. In fact, it spawns outright contradictions at every turn. We read that slavery and degradation are morally wrong because they take someone’s dignity away. But we also read that nothing you can do to a person,...
Python / Ruby Comparison →
“Guthrie presents anecdotes and experiments showing that people attribute human...”
– Is God an Accident?
“Babies have two systems that work in a cold-bloodedly rational way to help them...”
– Is God an Accident?
WatchKO gets his mad on
Letter to a young procrastinator. - By Seth... →
Open Left:: Obama's Consolidation of the Party →
“Over 1.25 million Indianans voted yesterday for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential primary. In 2004, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry received 969,000 votes in the state of Indiana…in the general election.” “The primary has been exceptionally good for party building. Obama has created a number of significant infrastructure pieces...
“But as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) reveals in his new book, Bush...”
– Harry Reid: On Six-Year Anniversary Of 9/11, Bush Again Declared, ‘Bring ‘Em On’
Dear Villagers: It's Change and the War, Stupid →
This morning on Meet the Press the assembled talking meat sticks wondered aloud what had led to Hillary’s defeat… Nowhere did any of these ass-clowns mention that Clinton voted to authorize the war while Obama spoke out against it.
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FOXNews.com - San Franciscans Want to Put... →
“The remarks by Mr. Obama earlier today stirred alarm among several contributors....”
– Obama Wont Rule Out Easing Clinton Campaign Debt - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog
For First Time, More Superdelegates Favor Obama -... →
West Wing Actors Heard McCain Say He Didn't Vote... →
Mr. Whitford, who played Josh Lyman, the deputy White House chief of staff on the NBC series, said in a telephone interview on Thursday that he was sitting across from Mr. McCain and next to Ms. Huffington at the small dinner and that he was startled to hear the senator sharply criticize Mr. Bush… “McCain was just sort of going off on how much he disliked Bush and the horrible things that...
Video: Obama Girl + Mike Gravel →
Guam, Baby! →
Senator Barack Obama appeared to win the Democratic caucuses in Guam on Saturday, defeating Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton by seven votes. When hand-counting finished shortly before 9 a.m. Sunday, delegates pledged to Mr. Obama, of Illinois, had received 2,264 votes, compared with Mrs. Clinton’s slate, which had received 2,257, according to The Associated Press.
