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May 15, 2008

Recipe [Dan Collins]

Thing In a Jar. 500 Years of Women 

Mad Libs, Olby Edition! [Dan Collins]

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Progg Media respects Barack Obama’s authoritah [Karl]

Progressive Media USA – the David Brock-helmed group organized to be the main soft-money advertising vehicle for Democrats in the fall – is ditching its previously announced $40 million attack effort against John McCain,  after Barack Obama’s camp told supporters not to give money to independent expenditure groups. That does not mean that McCain will not be attacked.  Rather, it means that such attacks will be coordinated through the DNC or Obama’s campaign infrastructure. Open Left’s Chris Bowers wrote

The Big Picture(s): “The John McCain Doctrines” edition, addendum [Karl]

The comments to my critique of Matt Bai’s New York Times Magazine profile of Sen. John McCain appear to have settled into a debate over the Vietnam service records of the candidates for the presidency in 2004.  This was perhaps to be expected, for reasons revealed below.  However, inasmuch as “The Big Picture(s)” and its follow-ups are conncerned with… the big picture, it might be useful to take a second look at

Spittle Flecked Uber-Douchebag Tells President to Shut the Hell Up [Dan Collins]

Here.  Which is why I know that the spittle-flecked uber-douchebag will be happy to set an example.  More on Keith’s very special comment.

The Big Picture(s): “The John McCain Doctrines” edition [Karl]

In “The Big Picture(s)” — an extended analysis of the establishment media’s coverage of the conflict in Iraq — one theme which emerged was that the media frequently invoked Vietnam as an analogy, even before the emergence of the Sunni insurgency.  Moreover, the establishment media evoked a particular narrative of the Vietnam War which ignored the ongoing historical debate over the course that conflict ultimately took.  The news consuming public was

So, John McCain really should consider getting a tattoo [Karl]

I was kidding yesterday, but apparently Luis Salgado did not appreciate the deadpan tone: Salgado, 28, owner of the Ill Skillz (4948 N. 5th) tattoo parlor just got a portrait of Clinton inked on his leg at a tattoo convention in Baltimore. *** …Salgado’s new ink is featured in Tattoo Review. The mag’s publisher Carey Exton says he thinks many tattooed people are for Clinton because she “tells it like it