New York magazine’s Kurt Anderson — a self-described Obamaphile –becomes the latest in a string of media figures to admit that establishment media journalists generally back Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton, even going a little Pauline Kael in the process: …I don’t know many of those fierce Clinton supporters, because most of my friends and acquaintances are writers and editors and cultural impresarios of one kind or another—members of “the media”—and there

Robert emails to let me know that Dell got wind of our post and are taking care of the problem right now, so kudos for that. Wrong.  Robert was just indicating that he’d been getting a lot of hits at his site from Dell addresses.  They haven’t done squat.  Maybe there are just a bunch of Dell people who think it’s jolly good fun.  If they don’t take care of

Catz are teh funny. Via comments at Rachel’s.

At RCP, Jay Cost prints the text of a speech he gave to a conference at Princeton University on the national party organizations – and their capacity to manage an election like this one. I disagree with Cost’s claim that the public will have a clear choice between two distinct political visions in the general election.  Nevertheless, his observations on the inability of the Republican National Committee and the Democratic

Could use some prayers.  Some of you, I know, have been following them at Caring Bridge.  Here’s the latest: (Denise Writing) Well the house looks like a tornardo hit it, but we made it out and are now in Tuscon, Arizona. – Here’s how the last three days have been for us. Eric found out about his tumors on Thursday. Friday I spent all day getting medical records and getting

Ann Althouse and Glenn Reynolds point to pictures of Barack Obama with his family (including his two cute children) as his “secret weapon.” “Secret,” though often used to describe a weapon, is probably not the correct word in this context.  Obama is not the first politician to use an attractive family as a political prop.  The attractiveness of a candidate has been a factor at least as far back as the televised

If you can get past the Coobonics, the message is worthwhile, I think.

Salon’s Joan Walsh joins the growing list of those in the media (including fellow liberals like Bill Press) noting that reporters from the establishment media swoon over Barack Obama and hate Hillary Clinton: I was struck when I got to Iowa and New Hampshire in January by how our media colleagues were just swooning over Barack Obama. That is not too strong a word. They were swooning. I was at

Robert Pedersen has a hair curling saga (Jeff’s immune) of Dell “customer support” gratuitous anti-customer violence. Caution: it is a long slog. If you’ve experienced similar things with Dell, you may wish to go over there and vent for sanity’s sake. I remember in the early days of personal computing the trade mags were full of praise for Dell’s cutting edge designs and dedicated tech support. It’s been a long

For the minerals, not the miners. Glenn Reynolds points out this Weekly Standard article by Wesley J. Smith on plants rights: You just knew it was coming: At the request of the Swiss government, an ethics panel has weighed in on the “dignity” of plants and opined that the arbitrary killing of flora is morally wrong. This is no hoax. The concept of what could be called “plant rights” is