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July 2008

Another moment of unabashed pragmatism

Ketchup or mayo on my burger? Fuck it. Slather ’em both on there. I’m nothing if not willing to reach a happy consensus. I mean, who wants a condiment war? Except maybe John McCain?

Let them (refuse to) eat cake

From Pandagon’s Jesse Taylor (erstwhile conductor of the muscular Jerry Springer political freight train): I bow to you, Jeff Goldstein. You have redefined correctitude in my eyes, other random conservatives. American Thinker, you smell like jasmine and sunshine. However, you are all still idiots. I know that remembering all the way back to five years ago is like super hard and stuff, but let’s remember why we went through Plamegate

Simply the Best! [Dan Collins]

Jonah Goldberg has up an homage to a lefty writer of gobsmiting talent. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that he’s to political writing what William Shatner is to the Shakespearean stage. Mark Morford is a columnist for sfgate.com and the San Francisco Chronicle. He also teaches yoga, subscribes to magazines, admires trees, detests shrill alarmism (including his own), sleeps naked. He has not seen your blog,

Yglesias breaks the rule of holes on patriotism [Karl]

Matthew Yglesias strikes again, with a new theory about American patriotism: American liberals and American conservatives are both Americans so our American patriotism is very similar. We just have different ideas about politics. Specifically, I would say that liberals do a better job of recognizing that much as we may love America there’s something arbitrary about it — we’re just so happen to be Americans whereas other people are Canadians

What does Andrew Sullivan see in Barack Obama? [Karl]

Excitable Andy did his triple-gainer into the Obama tank for the Times of London on Sunday.  Having noted his rampant hypocrisy last week, I skipped writing about it yesterday. Daniel Larison, however, took the time to fisk it from his perspective.  I am not in total agreement, but must note Larison’s response to Sully’s claim that Obama, by shifitng on Iraq, terrorist surveillance, etc. is undermining every reason to vote for McCain: That would be clever,

Fight the Smears [Dan Collins]

O! yes we can: The campaign of 2008 started on July 1 when Obama launched his first national advertising buy of the season. How McCain responds and whether or not he does, will have a big impact in determining whether Obama can solidify or expand his current lead in the polls. As always, the media fails to cover the significant events of the campaign — but this is one of

Isle of Dogs [Dan Collins]

That was a Ben Jonson reference, BTW. “There are whole segments of the population that prefer being in the company of dogs than people, and I’m not sure that’s such a negative thing,” said Joel Gavriele-Gold, a psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan and the author of “When Pets Come Between Partners.” In a recent study, Lawrence Kurdek, a psychologist at Wright State University in Ohio, found that college students who

AJ Strata Nukes Obama Birth Cert Forgery Theorists [Dan Collins]

Okay, so I’m feeling a little toasty after having posted on this, yesterday. Dorkafork is right. It turns out that Obama was a live birth, and not a fetus who momentarily survived an attempt at an abortion, which would make it ineligible to become president. Damn you, internet, for exposing my gullibility!

Weather Channel To Become Climate Channel [Dan Collins]

GE/NBC/Universal purchases channel, parcels off staff to cable news concerns, hires Pixar to provide animated penguins, polar bears, robots to present the climate. Also, to animate anchorman Al Gore.

Chimpy McHitlerburton’s smirky rodeo ride through history, 25: the last slice of Saddam cake eaten by secret greedy killbots

From the AP: The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans. The removal of 550 metric tons of “yellowcake” — the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment — was a significant step toward closing the