Month: May 2008

“To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past.” — Walter Cronkite, February 27, 1968 The most delusional meme of...

Lot’s of fun stuff coming up in the South.

Here’s a little reminder about who Mickey Kantor is: Mickey Kantor served as U.S. Trade Representative, 1993 to 1997, and as Secretary of Commerce under Bill Clinton, 1996 to 1997. Kantor was the lead U.S. negotiator in...

Perhaps the only decent recent journalism I’ve seen on issues under discussion in the presidential campaign has explained that Clinton and McCain’s proposed gas-tax moratorium is a bad idea. Obama opposes the...

Does anyone else get back spasms? The only way I can describe them is that they feel like what I imagine contractions feel like. Except at the end, there’s no baby. But what do I know? I’m a guy.