If you can get past the Coobonics, the message is worthwhile, I think.

Salon’s Joan Walsh joins the growing list of those in the media (including fellow liberals like Bill Press) noting that reporters from the establishment media swoon over Barack Obama and hate Hillary Clinton: I was struck when I got to Iowa and New Hampshire in January by how our media colleagues were just swooning over Barack Obama. That is not too strong a word. They were swooning. I was at

Robert Pedersen has a hair curling saga (Jeff’s immune) of Dell “customer support” gratuitous anti-customer violence. Caution: it is a long slog. If you’ve experienced similar things with Dell, you may wish to go over there and vent for sanity’s sake. I remember in the early days of personal computing the trade mags were full of praise for Dell’s cutting edge designs and dedicated tech support. It’s been a long

For the minerals, not the miners. Glenn Reynolds points out this Weekly Standard article by Wesley J. Smith on plants rights: You just knew it was coming: At the request of the Swiss government, an ethics panel has weighed in on the “dignity” of plants and opined that the arbitrary killing of flora is morally wrong. This is no hoax. The concept of what could be called “plant rights” is

The Chicago Tribune has run its take on “What led Obama to Wright’s church,” a topic addressed here at pw once or twice before.  Given that some have questioned the notion that the Black Liberation Theology of the Trinity United Church of Christ is not typical of black churches in America (despite a ten-year statistical study showing this to be the case), one notable quote in the Tribune piece comes from