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30 November 2007TPM’s Greg Sargent has a post up this morning about a New York Times story on Rudy Giuliani’s chronic fibbing, calling the Times piece an, “…epic, front-page fact-check of the multiple falsehoods.” While I agree that this level of coverage of this topic by a major news organization is long overdue, I’m not sure [...]
29 November 2007Well that’s fine timing, mr. needl. The following was in the works before your Edwards post appeared, but now it’s a fitting piggyback.
Last week, I went out on a limb and predicted that John Edwards would be the Democratic Party nominee for president, despite the fact that Obama and Clinton are consistently ahead of [...]
28 November 2007today, running on the treadmill, it came to my attention that i still have a soul.
this epiphany occurred, as such things often do, in the unlikeliest of circumstances.
during the break on sportscenter…
i got chills.
i nearly got choked up.
over a tv spot.
dammit.
call it manipulative. call it political theater. whatever.
but today this bit of theater got around [...]
maybe the docs at rhode island hospital should’ve gone into rocket science.
because clearly they’re not cut out for this “brain surgery” thing.
it’s bad when patients needing brain surgery say, “whatever you do, don’t take me to the hospital. get your crazy cousin over here with his scalpel set, but do not, under any circumstances, take [...]
27 November 2007I’ll be keeping a close eye on the so-called “improvement” in Iraq, for reasons I’ve written about here and here, and today, via TPM, it seems that a new Pew poll has spurned a variety of interpretations.
While some outlets like AP (headline: Poll: US Military Doing Better in Iraq) and AFP (headline: Americans happier about [...]
