The information revolution, now available with Flex: More than 400 magazine publishing and editorial executive plus a sprinkling of agency and advertiser executives gathered earlier this week in San Francisco for the annual American Magazine Conference. With an opening discussion with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and a closing conversation with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the conference acknowledged the serious challenges facing the industry but emphasized solutions and growth

Give us our bread and circuses, O! This race would be far more interesting with a conservative on the ticket, I think. But then, what do I know. I’m not part of the GOP elite establishment and Beltway pundit’s circuit — where McCain is seen as a “viable” candidate while Sarah Palin is viewed as “a cancer” on the party. Must be all the clinging I do to my guns

Caroline Glick, “Our World: The convenient war against the Jews”, Jerusalem Post: The anti-Semitic belief that all Jews are Zionists and therefore all Jews are fair game in the war against Israel – itself simply another round of the age-old war against the Jews – allows anti-Semites to obfuscate the fact that their anti-Israel rhetoric is simply warmed over Jew-hatred. People like Iranian leaders Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ali Khamenei, and

David Harsanyi, Denver Post: As the economic news — fairly or not — has provided Barack Obama the momentum this past month, John McCain has decided to bring the Illinois senator’s shady associations to the forefront. This promises to be spectacularly “negative” — and even somewhat true. But will it matter? Former President Bill Clinton was recently asked by Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren: “What is the difference between an

The anti-feminist feminist harpy. From Salon: As I see it, the Palin Effect is a double-headed hydra. On one side you have Todd Palin, who is clearly a vibrant, macho force in his family’s life. Just as clearly, he has effectively embraced the role as a primary caregiver. What does it say that he and Sarah have a mutually aggrandizing partnership/marriage? A successful professional woman who embraces a masculine male

If anybody needs me, I’ll be curled up in bed. Incidentally, any of you feel like donating a decent hand gun? I’d offer to buy it outright, but unfortunately I’m putting all my money into canned soups and beans just now — and so the only protection I can offer my family is my ability to kill most people with my bare hands. But that’s always contingent on their number

Me, I plan on using tonight’s debate as a drinking game: every time it occurs to me that PJM is paying someone other than me big bucks to liveblog this bitch, I’m going to do a shot of Ouzo and spank myself with any rolled up Victor Davis Hanson column I can dig up that mentions either Xerxes, Thrace, or Herodotus. So. Let the games begin! **** post mortem: Ed

…from Obama campaign chief strategist David Axelrod, courtesy the LA Times blog: “We’re prepared for a very aggressive debate,” Axelrod told reporters aboard Obama’s plane today en route to Nashville from North Carolina. Should the need arise, Axelrod said, taking off one glove as a preemptory warning himself, Obama will remind Americans during the debate here at Belmont University of the Arizona senator’s role in the “Keating 5” thrift scandal

Remember when Robert Gibb said earlier that Senator Obama didn’t know of Bill Ayers’ violent past? Well, that’s not entirely true, as it turns out. This, according to Mr Gibb. Who strenuously disagrees with Mr Gibb for taking Mr Gibb out of context and putting words into the mouth of Mr Gibb. Besides — what about the big issues? AND, you know — KEATING!