the Iron My Shirt guys to go to an Obama rally and holler, “Pick my cotton!” “Fetch mah julep!” A tordid affair. Tordid? That’s torrid AND sordid. With all the Heath Ledger coverage, I missed that Suzanne Pleshette died.

That F#&%ing Cat!  On a very different note, great post over at Christopher Taylor’s blog (check out the following one, as well).

you’ve got there, or are you just happy to see me? Proving yet again that the Right continues to not fire on all cylinders, Right bloggers Protein Wisdom’s Dan Collins and Darleen’s Place seem to miss the tongue in cheek nature of my “rules” and the actual point of my post“The Media and The 2008 Election: The Perfect Storm of Clinton Hate.  Darleen accuses me of: jaw-dropping self-parody (really too giggle inducing to be labeled nascent

NYT gives some fellow named . . . Piranha, I think, 8 pages in which to lecture the United States regarding its hegemony and how it must surrender power.  Full of bluster and synergy, inevitable as plate tectonics, and more revelatory of the NYT’s worldview than anything that might come to pass in actual history, I prophesy (or profess, sighing) that it will take its place in the dusty annals of

Sen. Barack Obama’s victory speech in South Carolina contained a twist on his core theme of “change”: But there are real differences between the candidates. We are looking for more than just a change of party in the White House. We’re looking to fundamentally change the status quo in Washington – a status quo that extends beyond any particular party. And right now, that status quo is fighting back with

At FireDogLake, we learn that Christy Hardin Smith has read an article from CQ reporting that US intelligence allegedly tapped the telephone calls of author Lawrence Wright in 2002, and now fears that her phones may still be tapped because her family hosted a teenage German foreign exchange student a few years ago. The CQ article in turn refers to an article in the Jan. 21 edition of The New Yorker, which is not

in such a way that they don’t notice: Ellen Langer had a message for the world’s elite in Davos: get “mindful”, and you will be more successful in your job, live longer, be more attractive and even get on better with your dog.”Almost all of us is mindless, and oblivious to it,” Langer, a Harvard social psychology professor, told AFP at the World Economic Forum, an annual gathering of the

In addition to this morning’s insty-analysis, some additional notes.  First, the pollsters were off more in South Carolina than they were in New Hampshire — but they picked the correct winner, so we will probably not be subjected to faulty analysis of the polling by Andrew Kohut. Second, OpenLeft’s Chris Bowers handicaps Super-Duper Tuesday for the Dems: So, the question is, how close does Obama have to be after Super Tuesday

Awwww. PFLP founder George Habash died at age 83 in his home in Amman. His terror gang massacred dozens of Israeli adults, children and babies, assassinated Minister Ze’evi and plotted to kill Rabbi Ovadya Yosef. PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas announced three days of mourning following the death of George Habash, the founder of terror gang PFLP. All PLO flags will be at half mast and there will be an official

Can anti-affirmative action sentiment be far behind? But Barack Obama has an opportunity here to make these new rules, as they pertain to him, lasting. And so does the progressive blogosphere. I have long stated that Obama is a Media Darling, and indeed it is one of the main reasons I tepidly support him for the nomination. Here are some of the rules that Obama and progressives should look to