It’s one thing to take a clinically depressed ex-agency beet out for a couple drinks and Disney on Ice — either out of the goodness of your heart, or with the hope that a leggy, half-frozen chick in a twinkling foam Nemo head might take his mind off of Caspian Sea pipeline conspiracies, or (at the very least) keep him away from the Smack until that next manila envelope stuffed
April 7, 2008
California Mulls Spanking Ban [Dan Collins]
If spanking is outlawed, only criminals will . . . spank. Geez. With all the excitement, I’d forgotten this one.
April 7, 2008
LA Times Retracts Hoax [Dan Collins]
The Los Angeles Times on Monday retracted a story that linked hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs to the 1994 shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur, admitting that the report relied on fake FBI documents. The move came three weeks after the paper’s Web site carried a lengthy story by Pulitzer Prize-winner Chuck Philips, who said that associates of Combs had arranged the assault on Shakur because they were angry that he
April 7, 2008
Andrew Sullivan, just as excitable offline [Karl]
Excitable Andy has been on vacation from his blog, but appeared with Christopher Hitchens on The Tim Russert Show on Saturday. At about 2:30 into the linked video, Sully enthuses about the likely presidential contest between John McCain and Barack Obama: To be honest this whole election has been draining, amazing and fun. But I couldn’t be more amazed that we might end up with McCain and Obama. I think
April 7, 2008
Ya Think? [Dan Collins]
Wall Street Journal Opinion piece: Obama May Not Have Fully Contained Damage From Ex-Pastor That’s like saying the Chernobyl reactor leaked a little radiation. Consecrated ground for sacred conversation.
April 7, 2008
Gore's global warming ad draws some cool responses [Karl]
Rasmussen Reports posts some videos of “dial sessions” for the latest ad Al Gore & Co. have produced about fighting global warming. It plays well with the young and Democrats, mediocre with Independents, and not too well with anyone else. Personally, while I would be among those who do not see fighting global warming as akin to the Normandy invasion, the civil rights movement or the moon landing, this ad probably
April 7, 2008
Congrats, Morons! [Dan Collins]
Ace makes Time’s First Annual Blog Index: The conservative/ libertarian answer to the Daily Kos, the Ace of Spades HQ, (AoS) has been going strong since 2003, and recently recorded its 10 millionth hit. Like most political blogs, the anonymous Ace comments on the day’s political news and provides links. But the anonymous Ace who writes the blog isn’t afraid to mix it up; AoS is full of snarling, flat-out
April 7, 2008
Dems 2008: A Clintonian firing [Karl]
There is plenty of blog buzz about Mark Penn being pushed out as chief strategist of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign after his work on a Colombian free-trade agreement that Clinton opposes. There is less buzz about the fact that Penn’s firm will continue to provide polling and advice to the campaign. Call it the third way of political firing. As opposed to the actual firing Penn’s firm got from Columbia. It