Author: Chris

Open Thread

It occurs to me that we haven’t had any pandas lurking around this dump in quite a little while. Let’s see if we can fix that. Say hello, if you will, to Su Lin, who celebrated her first birthday this past August by...

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Simple Minds

A little over a year ago I had the occasion to be mocked as though I was a naïve and stupid little child for having the temerity to suggest that Curt Weldon might actually have to run campaign commercials this cycle (I’d...

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Answers for Mr. Kurtz

In his online column this morning , Howard Kurtz asks a number of questions regarding the Foley scandal. Since the answers to his questions are obvious, I’d like to offer Mr. Kurtz a helping hand. Now I don’t want to come...

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In America…

Hopefully we’ll be able to get a decent post on this up some time today, but in the mean time I wanted highlight a few very good posts on the torture bill that will almost certainly pass in the House and Senate today....

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Boneless Bits of Nit

I hate to quibble with this post on Saint John McCain by Ben Adler since I agree with his conclusions. Ben explores the bizarre phenomenon in which gullible pundits refuse to believe their lying eyes and convince themselves that...

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