Not everyone is thrilled about how new technology has changed the way news is reported. Long-time White House Press Corp member and columnist for Hearst newspapers Helen Thomas is one of those unhappy. She blames bloggers for contributing to the “deterioration” of journalism that led to the Iraq war.      [Click Here For Audio]       “What I really worry about is that I think the bloggers and everyone, everyone with a laptop thinks they’re

The latest bloviating from the Internet’s most notorious sock-puppeteer takes issue with the notion that some people might become “unhinged” in the event of a loss by Barack Obama. Tom Maguire capably dismantles most of that bloviating at Just One Minute, but I would add that Ellers McEllerson has apparently forgotten about the Post-Election Stress and Trauma Syndrome that plagued Democrats after losses in 2000 and 2004.  He also seems to have missed the rude reaction of

Wonder what Ollie’s saying, now that the FARC heads and the Great Man have been revealed for the frauds they are.

Surgery gone “horribly awry” not penis enlargement, as rumored.

Gary Sterne, 43, discovered the huge “Maisy Battery” after he found a crinkled map which fell out of an old pair of US serviceman’s trousers at a military memorabilia fair in Stockport. Gary Sterne discovered the Maisy Battery, an extensive installation “the size of four football pitches” It turned out to be an invasion map for Omaha Beach, which included an area marked “area of high resistance”. Mr Sterne, a

What’s missing from this study? Women and gay men are likely to be the worst drivers, a new study has shown. Research has revealed that both perform poorly in tasks involving navigation and spatial awareness when compared to heterosexual men. Psychologists at Queen Mary, University of London, who conducted the study, believe the findings mean driving in a strange environment would be more difficult for gay men and women than for

Bill on negative campaigning, from Politico: Clinton also let his audience glimpse the scars of his White House years. “Nobody would like it better than us if you could get that personal vilification out of there, because nobody’s been vilified more than we have,” he said, after noting that he thought Hillary and McCain could run a respectful campaign. “One of the problems with laying down and turning the other

Granted, many conservatives are disenchanted with Mike Huckabee.  Some of that disenchantment is based on policy matters.  Some of that disenchantment is with the role identity politics is playing in his campaign. Nevertheless, let us savor moments in which people like Josh Marshall and his fellow travelers at TPM feverishly work to crack Huckabee’s “crypto-evangelical code” about the “vertical politics” of taking America up, rather than down. It apparently does

Having glanced at the horizon of the GOP race, I have some follow-up thoughts about the Dems.  Actually, they are closer to musings.  Like Excitable Andy, I’m “just airing” them, albeit without the conspiracy theories. At the moment — as you likely noticed – Obama fever is consuming swaths of the media and the blogosphere.  To be sure, Ezra Klein’s rapture will be marked as a classic in the genre, but it is by no means