I wish I could write that I am linking to this video of Michigan Democratic Party chairman Mark Brewer explaining the Michigan ballot out of disgust with the way the Clintons manipulated the primary process, or out some sense of civic obligation to prevent people from spoiling their ballots. In reality, I am linking it because it suggests that Chris Farley faked his own death.  So you may want to skip

Hi, all. Been nursing a rib injury that seems to have culminated in some sort of lump in my back. According to my primary care physician, what I have is a fatty tumor that is coincidental with the back/rib cage injury from which I’ve been recuperating. But because the lump is directly atop the point where the rib cage injury feels centered (when I press on that area, I experience

Richard Cohen’s piece in the WaPo on Sen. Barack Obama’s spiritual advisor — the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. — effectively giving an award to Louis Farrakhan is getting the big blog buzz right now, after the story was flagged by Slate’s Mickey Kaus  and Burt Prelutsky at PJM over the weekend.  At Just One Minute, Tom Maguire links to a Farrakhan interview from the church’s magazine under the title “Mickey Kaus Gets results!”,

Today’s New York Times article on Sen. Barack Obama’s pursuit of the Hispanic vote is derided by Tom Maguire at Just One Minute and Jeralyn Merritt at TalkLeft as lacking in substance. My election-related posts have tended to chide the media for focusing on polls without understanding their synergy with the candidates’ tactics and strategies on the ground.  Yet the NYT piece also fails on that level.  The article opens with Obama’s Hispanic dog-whistle,

Hillary Clinton likens White House to prison Bird Seeks Gilded Cage: Don’t say it: Lyrics here.

Heh: As noted yesterday, unhinged lefties who read the New York Times are ready to lynch Bill Kristol. But they and the paper’s ombudsman have nothing to say–nada–about the clear conflict of interests of liberal Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse. The name should ring a bell. In 1989, a year in which she wrote two dozen stories about abortion, Greenhouse marched in an abortion-rights rally in Washington. She wasn’t covering

From Taranto’s Best of the Web, this report: Sad news from the Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Times Leader: A mother who lost her daughter in a well-publicized automobile accident in Massachusetts nearly 39 years ago was remembered Saturday as a caring woman who loved talking, drinking coffee and making pancakes for breakfast.Gwen L. Kopechne, 89, died on Dec. 20 at the Valley Crest Nursing Home in Plains Township. A small gathering of family

Datadave, datadave, These three things for thee I crave: 1) Thinking more clearly, 2) Speaking sincerely, 3) Listening more nearly, Datadave.

Bob Herbert at the NYT. What’s just so happening, Bob? It just so happens that the Democratic presidential candidates are campaigning this week in the misogyny capital of America: Nevada. It’s a perfect place to bring up the way women are viewed and treated in this society, but don’t hold your breath. Presidential wannabes are hardly in the habit of insulting the locals. Prostitution is legal in much of Nevada

I am regularly beseiged, online, with ads, emails, and FaceBook applications that apparently wish to entice me to discover who’s looking for me. These are exactly the people whom I am hoping to avoid, in all likelihood.