Neatorama has published a handy list of underused insults.  For example: 2. BESCUMBER (v) Definition: To spray with poo. Analysis: Actually bescumber is just one of many words in the English language that basically mean “to spray with poo”. These are: BEDUNG, BERAY, IMMERD, SHARNY, and the good ol’ SHITTEN. In special cases, you can use BEMUTE (specifically means to drop poo on someone from great height), SHARD-BORN (born in

The Washington Post’s Howie Kurtz claims that after more than a year of mostly glowing coverage, the media has gotten tougher on Democratic presidential frontrunner Barack Obama: When the Illinois senator denounced his former pastor last week, it followed days of saturation coverage of Wright’s inflammatory, sometimes eccentric remarks. The press, which was slow to recognize the importance of the Wright controversy — videotapes of his sermons could have been purchased months

Hitchens is in rare(fied) form today as he ventilates the integument of several of His Hopeychangeyness’s close acquaintance.  Sample: Liberal comment on Wright, and on the incredible damage that this conceited old fanatic has done to the Obama campaign, tends to dwell on the negative effect that black chauvinist rhetoric has on white working-class voters. Fair enough, I suppose. But why should a thinking black member of the working class

The Left largely failed to get the establishment media to buy into the idea that the Rev. John Hagee’s endorsement of John McCain’s presidential campaign was similar to Barack Obama’s longtime relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. However, the Chicago Tribune’s Steve Chapman comes closer to the mark in comparing McCain’s apparently friendly relationship with conservative radio talk-show host G. Gordon Liddy – who spent more than 4 years in prison for his

New York magazine’s Kurt Anderson — a self-described Obamaphile –becomes the latest in a string of media figures to admit that establishment media journalists generally back Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton, even going a little Pauline Kael in the process: …I don’t know many of those fierce Clinton supporters, because most of my friends and acquaintances are writers and editors and cultural impresarios of one kind or another—members of “the media”—and there

Robert emails to let me know that Dell got wind of our post and are taking care of the problem right now, so kudos for that. Wrong.  Robert was just indicating that he’d been getting a lot of hits at his site from Dell addresses.  They haven’t done squat.  Maybe there are just a bunch of Dell people who think it’s jolly good fun.  If they don’t take care of

Catz are teh funny. Via comments at Rachel’s.

At RCP, Jay Cost prints the text of a speech he gave to a conference at Princeton University on the national party organizations – and their capacity to manage an election like this one. I disagree with Cost’s claim that the public will have a clear choice between two distinct political visions in the general election.  Nevertheless, his observations on the inability of the Republican National Committee and the Democratic

Could use some prayers.  Some of you, I know, have been following them at Caring Bridge.  Here’s the latest: (Denise Writing) Well the house looks like a tornardo hit it, but we made it out and are now in Tuscon, Arizona. – Here’s how the last three days have been for us. Eric found out about his tumors on Thursday. Friday I spent all day getting medical records and getting

Ann Althouse and Glenn Reynolds point to pictures of Barack Obama with his family (including his two cute children) as his “secret weapon.” “Secret,” though often used to describe a weapon, is probably not the correct word in this context.  Obama is not the first politician to use an attractive family as a political prop.  The attractiveness of a candidate has been a factor at least as far back as the televised