Via alppuccino: “Juno” also shares with “Knocked Up” an underlying theme, a message that is not anti-abortion but rather pro-adulthood. It follows its heroine — and by the end she has earned that title — on a twisty path toward responsibility and greater self-understanding. This is the course followed by most coming-of-age stories, though not many are so daring in their treatment of teenage pregnancy, which this film flirts with

RTO performs the admirable task of gathering up Barack Obama’s shifting statements on the “surge” strategy so that you — and of course, the mainstream press, bless their busy beaver hearts! — don’t have to. But then, it was never your job. The legacy media, on the other hand…? Well, they have more pressing issues to look into. Like, for instance, “does using leet speak and the self-descriptive and boisterously

Dear Friends and supporters: We here in Obamalot encourage that you kindly refrain from attacks on Bristol Palin and Sarah Palin, specifically when it comes to issues relating to their families. We’ve done some asking around, you see, and such a strategy is unlikely to hurt Senator McCain with his base — and may actually help him with both undecideds and people with, like, souls. So we ask that you

An interesting thread at the Hillary Clinton forum that could provide some insight into how the Obama campaign burned a few electoral bridges: We watched in horror as you told your base that they were no longer needed and that we could just “stay home”. We watched in stunned outrage when you were silent on sexism and propelled the race card. You called us uneducated, old, blue collar, gun toters,

Darleen has already noted the release of the story, by the McCain campaign, that Bristol Palin, the 17-year-old daughter of Gov. Sarah Palin, is pregnant and will marry the father of the child. But here’s the interesting bit, politically speaking. From Reuters: Senior McCain campaign officials said McCain knew of the daughter’s pregnancy when he selected Palin last week as his vice presidential running mate, deciding that it did not

Tentative tagline: “Just like regular tv, except on the internet. And with no guest appearances by Tim Daly or Steven Weber currently in the works.” Now all I need is one of them professional looking director’s chairs with my name on it. And a camera. And some editing software. And a way to stream the video. Not to mention a crew. And maybe a desk, too — with one of

That they even think it? Or that they do so out loud and in public…?* **** update: Oopsie!

Rick Brookhiser: Liberals love Obama because he is a Numinous Negro. Conservatives love Palin because she has a Downs baby and an M-16. For both sides, that is all on earth ye know and all ye need to know. You might call it mystical and childish. May I be so wrong that a hundred harpies will pluck my eyeballs. Wrong? You? Surely that was merely a rhetorical flourish — an

Time to keep a running list of Sarah Palin’s sins — lovingly gathered, mostly in crazed speculative form, by members of the Church of Diversity and Otherness Coddling, and reprinted here, with my gloss, for your delectation. 1) Alan Colmes: Poor prenatal care (waiting too long after her water broke to get to a hospital) on Palin’s part created a Downs baby. Reached for comment, Science suggested Colmes shut his

It strikes me that, for many Obama supporters, the motive in adopting the slight Ivy League candidate was a desire to appear de rigeur. Obama, that is, reflected back liberal fashion. But if this race is all about fashion, and the new Zogby poll has any merit, it seems suddenly that Palin has become the new black. — Which means, should the McCain ticket prevail, we can look forward to