Hammer Of The Blogs

"Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
-- George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Deep Thought

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The lesson is not that The Saga of Shirley Sherrod is yet another tedious "teachable moment" about this country's race issues....
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Jack Tatum

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Jack Tatum was the first football player I learned to recognize when I was a kid. He was the reason I became a football fan in general, and...
Friday, July 16, 2010

Pop Star

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So Kathleen Parker, perhaps aspiring to be the WaPo MoDo, not realizing that the one is quite enough, vaingloriously and tediously attempts...
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Sunday, July 11, 2010

Well, You Can't Have That....

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Joe Bageant throws down only every so often these days, but that's understandable, and more importantly, every one has been a gem. I th...
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Deep World Cup Thought

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Vuvuzelas are the African version of ThunderStix -- noisy, cheap, obnoxious toys that give supposedly grown adults an excuse to act like ret...
Saturday, July 03, 2010

Inside the Playbook

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If you're a football fan who enjoys the mechanics of the game as much as the personalities, and you don't know about Matt Bowen'...

Return On Investment

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Goldman Sachs executive/Obama economic policy advisor uses CDS payout to add to the indoor heated pool at his Hamptons spread. I know The Kr...
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Friday, July 02, 2010

Unforced Errors

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Per usual these days, I'm a tad late on the draw, but it bears even belated mention -- former heartbeat-away-from-the-preznitency-candid...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

Mediaocrities

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What Dave Weigel really should apologize for is, well, apologizing . I don't think any rational person (which leaves out Drudge and his...

Intervention

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I think there's a debate to be considered, and it's losers like this that make it a relevant discussion. The debate is not, contrar...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Notes and Errata

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A rarity, but I must quibble with Ed ever so slightly -- the right's martyr complex is hardly "latent". It's pretty much ...

Night of the Living Debt

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You can always tell the terrorist by his cologne and the watch on his wrist. -- Clutch, Power Player You know, as a responsible property own...

On the Ball

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I must be missing something here, because this seems impossibly dumb, even for the US government: Four senators are seeking to force the Ob...
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Thursday, June 17, 2010

Sick Simper Tearanus

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Christ, this Angle broad is worth her weight in comedy gold. Not that Harry Reid should get cocky, because people rarely go wrong in assumi...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

The Audacity of Dope

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From the news you can lose file: President Barack Obama's speech on the Gulf oil disaster may have gone over the heads of many in his a...

Closet Cases

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The most ridonkulous court case of the year finally winds down, and one side is getting a bit desperate in their closing argument: Winding ...
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Sunday, June 13, 2010

Cock Teas

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Media alert: retard gathering in rainy state. MUST CREDIT DRUDGE REPORT. Ho hum. So it appears another knuckle-dragging ex-football player ...
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Mock the Vote

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The curious case of Alvin Greene seems to be one of those "even weirder than you think" deals, doesn't it? After catching his...

A Modest Proposal

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While most of the topics here are political, every once in a while we'll touch upon the nature of cruelty -- or more precisely, the deed...
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California Drinking

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Deep thought: the exquisite irony of eMeg "Griff Harsh V's proud mom" Whitman spending $71 million of her own money to peddle...
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