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July 2008

More Iowa News [Dan Collins]

We’re not going to talk about the man who stabbed, gutted and decapitated a sleeping passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada, because it’s a tragedy, and it’s better left to sensationalist websites to pander to the debauched taste for such ultraviolent tripe.  I’m just not going to go there. Instead, I’d like to write about an incident that occurred last Thursday in Iowa City, where Matthew Osing invited friend

Burge-Goldstein Put the Pressure on Obama, McCain [Dan Collins]

Today the Burge-Goldstein ticket received a major boost in this very tight race when Mr. Burge’s press relations office leaked to Bill O’Reilly the details of two major position papers, one dealing with the gas crunch and the other with the status of exotic dancing in Mr. Burge’s home state of Iowa. Responding to Obama’s recommendation that, rather than falling for the ‘hoax’ of drilling for more oil, Americans ought

What I’ve been doing with my summer vacation — a McCain/Obama metaphor and OPEN THREAD!

In this short match against an opponent 50 pounds heavier, I break the leg scissors, pass the legs, feint like I’m going for the choke, and secure the cross face. Yield: tap! Discuss — particularly as it pertains to contemporary politics / theories of interpretation / the death and eventual resurrection of Anna Nicole / the overwrought prose of James Wolcott. …Or else, just savor it.

The “the ‘this is where the tumbleweeds go’ post” post

Righ’cheer:

Barack Obama: Transparently Secretive [Karl]

The Center for Responsive Politics and seven other watchdog groups recently asked asked John McCain and Barack Obama to disclose more information to the public about their fundraising “bundlers” and their small donors.  McCain responded; Obama ignored them.  McCain also fares better overall on donor disclosure. At the Politico, Ben Smith notes: Obama’s bundler figures don’t include the bundlers raise for other committees connected to the campaign, which renders the disclosure pretty

Jeff Goldstein: The Left’s Indispensable Blogger [Dan Collins]

It’s true that Jeff’s called it quits for a while before, and it’s also true that he’s come back [and it’s also true that he was away for 18 months, at one point. Just so you know].  In the latest case, the leftosphere apparently just can’t let bygones be bygones and let him go.  From these people we’ve learned some interesting things.  For example, Jeff’s retirement was a thinly-veiled invitation

Apropos of nothing 3 [cranky-d]

If an alien asked me, “What is rock music,” and I had to play only one song to define it, it would be, “You shook me all night long,” by AC/DC.  YMMV, of course.

Camp McCain mocks Barack Obama’s celebrity status [Karl]

Camp McCain likes Barack Obama’s global celebrity so much that they have launched a new ad  juxtaposing footage of Obama’s massive Berlin rally last week with images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.  The ad calls him “the biggest celebrity in the world… but is he ready to lead?”  From there, the narrator hits Obama on offshore drilling and energy taxes. The tone of the reaction from the establishment media in today’s conference call apparently was skeptical

Women over 40 are just not that into Obama [Karl]

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Carol Marin writes about Barack Obama’s problem with women: A few hours after leaving the “Women for Obama” luncheon, I ran into Sarah, not her real name. I’ve known her for a few years. A single mom, she free-lances, working as many jobs as she can to support two growing boys. She dreams of a permanent gig with benefits, but it’s still just a dream. A 37-year-old

IP borrowing? [updated]

Incidentally, in the screen cap I cut off the rest of the comments attributed to Steve M — all from this same IP. So if his claim that he’s only commented here twice is true, then he has to deal with the fact that someone is running around the interwebs using his footprint to leave little smears of shit around other people’s comment sections. Also, just to answer his commenters