NYT.  Publication capped “intense internal deliberations” at TNR. Unrelated: “I want you to picture Johansson,” McCormick writes in the Daily Telegraph, “curled up on a sofa in a subterranean studio, soft and gorgeous in a sort of indie pin-up way; long platinum blonde hair; huge, blue fawnish eyes; voluptuously indecent red lips; slender but curvaceous frame…”   At which point the reader might suspect a flattering review. Not the case, sadly.

Although it appears that Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign may be settling on a strategy of emphasizing her proposals to help the middle class and the perception that she is better qualified to be commander-in-chief than Sen. Barack Obama, two news articles further examine how disorganization has brought the Clinton campaign to the brink of oblivion. The L.A. Times reports on how strategist Mark Penn has fought Harold Ickes and other advisors over

Worse than alien anal probe?

Sounds painful.

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A cell phone image of one of the heads viewed by The Associated Press was inconclusive. Headline of the Day: Suspect in Murder of UK Model Regrets Sex With Dead Body in Driveway A beyonder shade of pale. The link between alcohol and aggression is well known. What’s not so clear is just why drunks get belligerent. What is it about the brain-on-alcohol that makes fighting seem like a good

Dark Lord Karl Rove notes that Sen. Barack Obama’s post-Wisconsin, policy-oriented speech provides an entree for his Democratic and Republican rivals to attack: Until now, Mr. Obama has been making appeals to the center, saying, for example, that we are not red or blue states, but the United States. But in his Houston speech, he used the opportunity of 45 (long) minutes on national TV to advocate a distinctly non-centrist,

Given our esteeemed host’s past plugs for Matt Welch’s Reason piece on John McCain, I note that Welch discusses the issues surrounding McCain’s “Maverick” image and underlying philosophy, the Reform Institute, and more with Will Wilkinson on bloggingheads.tv.  It apparently was posted on February 4th, so they do not discuss his sex life. Although critical of McCain’s general political impulses (as one would expect from Welch and Wilkinson), Welch notes how

The American Leadership Project, a new “independent expenditure” group set up to help Sen. Hillary Clinton, released its first ad, “Blueprint” which is largely positive and focused on middle-class issues, delivering a backhanded jab at Sen. Barack Obama only in its introductory line. The campaign also plans to go after Obama on the issue of who is better qualified to be commander-in-chief. This is basically what I have suggested the Clinton campaign should have