Reuters reports: The Grateful Dead, the San Francisco cult rock band that has played at political events since the 1960s, will reunite on Monday for the first time in four years to rally support for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, a spokesman said on Friday. Because nothing says “change” and “voice of a new generation” like the Dead.  I suppose this is a daring raid onto Clinton turf, but let’s count

The ignorance really is appalling: Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real. The survey found that 47 percent thought the 12th century English king Richard the Lionheart was a myth. And 23 percent thought World War II prime minister Churchill was made up. The

Doesn’t care. I agree with commenter Maxine Weiss who states: Anyone who denigrates the Superbowl is anti-American. It’s about so much more than Football. It’s about the Star-spangled Banner. It’s about all the unique commercials. It’s about the pre-show and half-time. It’s about tailgate parties, Dominoes Pizza and buffalo chicken wings. It’s about cheerleaders and drunkards who beat their wives. Good, wholesome American fun, and anyone who takes an interest

The LA Times compares Hillary to prose and Obama to poetry; Andrew declares the argument “solid.”  Concrete poetry?  Arse poetica? Do you accept this dialectical materialization from one who’s been accused of gauziness? Dost tease us out of thought, as doth eternity. Also, from LGF, Bobby Fisk hilariously punked.

Though Dan’s post on Rick Perlstein’s “Getting Past the ’60s? It’s Not Going to Happen” made me chuckle, I was struck that the same newspaper also ran “The Boomers Had Their Day. Make Way for the Millennials” by Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais on the same day. (The latter, incidentally, parallels the generational studies of Strauss and Howe, should you require some background to grasp the Winograd-Hais jargon.) The point of

The neocon warmonger speaks. With Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton locked in a very good battle leading up to Super Tuesday, Kristol makes this misogynistic quote: BILL KRISTOL: Look the only people for Hillary Clinton are the Democratic establishment and white women… it would be crazy for the Democratic party to follow the establishment that’s led them to defeat year after year… White Women are a problem – but, you

At Outside the Beltway, James Joyner does everyone a favor by linking to Eric Kleefeld’s compact summary of why Sen. John McCain will have a Super-Duper Tuesday.  Unfortunately, Joyner does this as part of an analysis of the McCain-Romney tussle  called “The Conservative Minority” containing an unhealthy amount of codswallop. Joyner notes two countervailing trends — that conservatives generally prefer Romney to McCain, yet McCain is winning Republican primaries against Romney — and comes up with

Smaller glassware: Britain has won notoriety for reckless drinking among the young. Drunken, brawling teens and twentysomethings have become a familiar sight in town centers. Relaxed laws mean pubs whose opening times used to be strictly regulated can now serve drinkers round the clock. The minimum drinking age in pubs is 18, but lawmakers say the crisis of excessive drinking is no longer confined to youth. They warn a steady

Rick Perlstein characterizes Andrew Sullivan as “gauzy.”  Is that homophobic?

From The Observer: Some fighters desert from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) because they feel betrayed by the leadership, demoralised by a sense that the socialist ideals that first informed the guerrilla group have been replaced by the savage capitalism of drug trafficking. Others leave to be with their families. Still others leave because they begin to think that, if they do not, they will die. Such is