The San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times report on the latest campaign trend — silly names for candidate events and tours. Obama’s “Stand For Change” tour is okay, though I think he could have rocked the Gen X vote had he called it the “Time To Change” tour.  My favorite may be the John Edwards “America Rising: Fighting for the Middle Class” tour. But I have to think Edwards would

Those who read the ostensibly straight news coverage of the New York Times will be told this about the place of immigration in the 2008 elections: New immigration and the political reaction against it are nearly as old as the United States itself. Yet the immigration surge of the last decade has awakened tensions of unexpected intensity that have pervaded the presidential campaigns of both parties and stirred voter anger

Via Pablo, Gleen defends his interpretation of Noonan’s use of the verb “to poof” as a reference to “poofter”: mredge My mother used that term 30 years ago to describe lifting an area of hair to give it a look of more body. I’ve heard the word from hairdressers many times since then. You are the immature person for jumping to the conclusion that the term is somehow used to

Al-Qaeda cleverly use sun roof to assassinate Pakistani ex-PM.  Could Popemobility have saved Bhutto? Would she be alive if Benedict had been willing to share his technology with Muslims? With that, I’m off to NJ to visit friends, and then to NYC to spend New Year’s Eve with Mike Hendrix and his band, so I don’t expect I’ll be doing much (if any) blogging till late on New Year’s Day.  I

h/t Reynolds: The votes by the MLA’s largest governing council came in an at-times-surreal five-hour meeting. Cary Nelson, author of Manifesto of a Tenured Radical, was in the position of being the leading moderate, offering alternative language to defeat Radical Caucus proposals. Critics of Israel repeatedly talked about “facts on the ground” to refer to the treatment of Israel’s critics on campuses today, and it was unclear whether the term

The year Adam Geller didn’t get any. Video: Street Race Crash and Burn on Sunset Blvd (excessive affluence involved)  Woman Held Against Her Will in Chicago (I don’t think Chicago’s so bad)

Poofgate.  The gift that keeps on giving.

It’s a new vibration. NEW YORK A day after the Huffington Post first reported it, The New York Times has announced that it has indeed hired conservative pundit, and Fox News analyst, Bill Kristol, as a new regular op-ed columnist.  Liberal bloggers had been up in arms over the move. Kristol said, in an interview with Politico.com, it gave him some pleasure to see their “heads explode.” Kristol was perhaps the

History of LOLcats.  In case you haven’t been paying attention.I can haz mor poofgate? 

Daddyblogger Robert Pedersen alerts us to this national convention, Jan. 4, Grand Rapids, MI. Okay, so it’s not a climate convention in Bali.  The differences are dedication and a lack of profiteering.