Kantor was right: Hoosiers really are shitty worthless white niggers. Except, obviously, for a lot of the ones from up near Gary. Still a little rare? Let the fork-sticking begin! Mostly unrelated: Various tests through which one can discover more about ever-fascinating oneself. Also mostly unrelated, probably: Jeff Goldstein awoke one morning to discover he’d transformed into a blogger.

James Scott Linville, who is among other admirable things apparently a fan of teh PW, takes issue with recent posts belonging to us and others repeating remarks ascribed— he claims erroneously–to her by a Canadian tabloid. Interestingly, Mr. Linville spent part of 9/11 with Ms. Wurtzel. Having reviewed the piece in question, I think that Karl’s criticisms of Ms. Wurtzel’s analysis still stand on their own merit, but I think

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Using tragedy to advance an agenda has been a strategy for many global warming activists, and it was just a matter of time before someone found a way to tie the recent Myanmar cyclone to global warming.Former Vice President Al Gore in an interview on NPR’s May 6 “Fresh Air” broadcast did just that. He was interviewed by “Fresh Air” host Terry Gross about the release of his book, “The

Today’s warning comes from CQ blogger Taegan Goddard, who reminds us not pay much attention to the exit polls for a number of reasons and recommends Charles Franklin’s final analysis of the primary polling instead. And while I prefer looking at state polls when possible, my usual spiel about not taking polls too literally gets more support from Pollster.com’s Mark Blumenthal in a post on the current divergence in national polls.  Blumenthal links

The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne usually does not impress me much.  Today was no exception, even though he gets a lot right about the current phase of the Democratic campaign: Bill Clinton has learned lessons, too, campaigning as a happy warrior in appreciative country towns. Barbara Allen, the former North Carolina Democratic chair and a Clinton supporter, said the former president’s emphasis on “the small places, places people don’t normally

Thor notifies me of more delectable fallout from Amandaquiddick: namely, she’s been accused of stealing ideas from women-of-color feminist bloggers and peddling it as her own. This leads us to the general victimology premise: It’s all too easy for white women to get away with stealing the ideas of women of colour. Women of colour often have less access to the mainstream media or mainstream academia, making it harder for

As voters head for the polls today, the NYT’s Adam Nagourney lays out the basic scenarios and what they might mean for the last leg of the Democratic campaign. Looking at the final pre-primary polls for Indiana and North Carolina, the spread seems to based largely on the number of undecided voters (fewer tends to benefit Hillary Clinton) and in North Carolina the projected number of black voters in each sample