Archive for: April 2008

Because some eating is a sin.
WINDSOR, N.J. (CBS) ― The sputtering economy has caused an increase in prices of many staples including gasoline, rice, ice cream, even beer. Now some lawmakers in New Jersey …

Broad-minded San Franciscan, demonstrating his inclusivity by reporting that he is friends with a conservative Catholic woman, despite her “unfortunate” choice of religions and politics. Read it at Michelle’s.

I wrote a short missive to the reader’s rep:
You know, …

Having touched on the different ways of sampling public opinion this morning, it was a happy coincidence to find results from the latest Gallup Panel survey, which asked respondents to describe in their own words “what comes to …

passes into, like, whoa!  totally other dimension!

Godspeed, and thanks for the pseudo-memories

Now that Barack Obama has specifically denounced some of the worst of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s comments, the L.A. Times has deigned to ask black ministers about the controversy:
African American ministers in Los Angeles expressed angst and concern Tuesday that a …

They smile in your face
All the while they want to bait your race
Those B’rackstabbers.

At RCP, Jay Cost revisits the ongoing discussion about whether Barack Obama can win working class whites in the general election, from two different but equally interesting perspectives.

His first take on the issue circles around a look at Clinton’s primary …

Docweasel(s) take(s) the Pandagate handwringers to the woodshed, here.

But here, I completely agree with the post.  I stopped being at all interested in perusing the Victoria’s Secret catalog when they started using Adriana Lima, who looked disturbingly …

of rote memorization.

Before we get too far away from the issue — or the Rev. Wright does something to return it to the front burner – I note that TNR’s Noam Scheiber revisited the question of why Barack Obama joined the Trinity …