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San Francisco’s Outside Lands Music Festival

August 17, 2008

>> You’ll rarely hear me say “I wish I was in San Francisco.” But next weekend’s Outside Lands arts and music festival is fantastic (including Grace & The Nocturnals). If you’re lucky enough to be on the West Coast, head on down.

The Scene at Saddleback

August 16, 2008

>> A quick post on Obama v. McCain at Saddleback: the initial reports confirm my feeling that McCain was surprisingly good, and Obama performed very poorly in a venue that seemed otherwise made for him to make inroads. Revolution in Jesusland correctly points out that Warren teed up the abortion question perfectly for Obama. And […]

The Lo-Jack Superdelegate

August 14, 2008

>> Mary Ann Akers posts this inspiring news: Detroit’s embattled mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, a superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention, is holding out the possibility that he’ll actually be able to go to Denver this month. Truly, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is a great believer in democracy and freedom. He will travel, even equipped with a […]

Obama’s Anti-Woman Taxation is Enough to Make Anyone Blue

August 14, 2008

>> A quick aside on Barack Obama’s new tax plan, as described by Obama advisors Austan Goolsbee and Jason Furman, which is purportedly in response to polls saying he was losing on the issue (unlike, of course, all other Obama policy shifts). Essentially, they say President Obama would bring back the old and not missed […]

Why Ted Thompson May Be a Horrible GM

July 31, 2008

According to the latest report from Fox’s Jay Glazer, Brett Favre has been traded to the New York Jets. Consider: From 1968 to 1991, the Packers had a total of five winning seasons. The lack of star talent and terrible facilities kept them in the bottom rung of team earnings. But Ron Wolf and Favre […]

I am the One I have been Waiting For

July 30, 2008

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. James Baldwin President-elect Barack Obama’s busy schedule yesterday of epic-length non-hybrid motorcades (11:00 a.m.: En route TBA. 12:05 p.m.: En route TBA. 1:45 p.m.: En route TBA. 2:55 p.m.: En route TBA. 5:20 p.m.: En route […]

On Coffee Snobbery

July 16, 2008

Coffee snobbery: we’ve all experienced it. We’ve all been frustrated by encounters with our own personal Ravens. Few of us know how to respond with anything other than withholding a tip. But Jeff Simmermon’s epic “Hold that espresso between your knees” rant on the subject, following an encounter at Arlington’s Murky Coffee, is now the […]

Josh Hamilton: A Dream Made Real

July 15, 2008

I am not supposed to be happy about what Josh Hamilton did the other night. At least, not if I read the sports blogs out there. I’m supposed to put on my shiny pretentiousness hat, given out with every .com purchase on GoDaddy, and approach Hamilton’s story with sarcasm and ridicule for the man’s faith. […]

Wall-E’s Enemies and Ranking the Pixar Films

July 1, 2008

>> Some people have the tendency to see politics in everything. It’s often there, yes – I’m sure you could dissect the politics of Dora the Explorer if you wanted to, and without Googling, I’m confident someone has – but it really does detract from just experiencing a work of pop art. [Not everything is […]

Oped: Evolving Standards of Politics

June 30, 2008

My most recent oped over at the Washington Times concerns Barack Obama’s rapid political evolution on the issues of gun rights and the death penalty. An excerpt: The second case, of which the Beltway population is very well aware, concerned the first decision in over a century that determines the scope of the Second Amendment´s […]

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