October 7th, 2004
Professor Bainbridge has compiled a catalogue of the incidents in the recent wave of anti-Republican attacks. He speculates, not unreasonably, that if this same set of incidents had happened to Kerry supporters, it would be national news.
My question is, at what point does the story spill onto the national media? How many more attacks will it take? My guess: Four.
0 commentsOctober 7th, 2004
Bill Lyon writes about Tiger’s marriage today. He’s just tops.
0 commentsOctober 6th, 2004
We now have the answer to the mystery of factcheck.com.
It’s a for-profit advertising site owned by someone who lives in the Cayman Islands. When the hits started coming, the site’s lawyer, John Berryhill, told the AP, they redirected incoming traffic to GeorgeSoros.com, “to relieve stress on the service and to express a political point of view.”
Sketchy, off-shore Internet hustlers prefer John Kerry!
0 commentsOctober 6th, 2004
Speaking of RSS feeds, reader D.W. writes in with another good feed aggregator called Bloglines. You should download one of these programs–it’ll change your life.
0 commentsPaging Matt Labash, STAT
October 6th, 2004
In the tradition of Tupac, Jewelz, and Shaq, Hillary Duff is dropping knowledge on Lindsay Lohan with her new album. From the song “Haters”:
You’re the queen of superficiality / Keep your lies out of my reality. . . .
You say your boyfriend’s sweet and kind / But you’ve still got your eyes on mine.
It’s not quite Dre or Biggie, mind you (Try to jack me up for a 211 / Fuck around and get up in a 187 or What’s beef? / Beef is when you need two gats to go to sleep / Beef is when your moms ain’t safe up in the streets / Beef is when I see you / Guaranteed to be an ICU).
What the world clearly needs is a magazine-length treatment of the blood-feud between Miss Piggy and the Hilton-in-Training. And there’s only one writer in America qualified to do it. Over to you, Matt.
0 commentsOctober 6th, 2004
Have you heard of Survivor? Not the Jeff Probst show, the new videogame from Replay Studios. In it, you’re placed in disaster scenarios (the sinking of the Titanic, Hiroshima) and have to escape. One of the planned scenarios: The World Trade Center and 9/11.
0 commentsOctober 6th, 2004
Curious about the Edwards line that Cheney, “voted against a resolution calling for the release of Nelson Mandela in South Africa,” I dug into Nexis. Why did Cheney cast that vote in 1986? In 2000, he explained, “The [African National Congress] was then viewed as a terrorist organization. It was a step that we simply weren’t prepared to take.”
Turning a negative into a positive: Dick Cheney–ahead of the curve on the threat of terrorism!
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October 6th, 2004
My good friend Scott Foster has just started the blog Four Sides. Bookmark it now. Scott’s incredibly smart and funny and Four Sides is going to be your one-stop shop for liberal politics, home improvement, legal affairs, and child-rearing tips.
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