September 2008
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At my old blog, I was fortunate enough to be right in the commenting sweetspot: just well enough read to have loyal, intelligent readers who would post the occasional thought of their own; not well enough known to attract the crazies. It’s pretty much the ideal situation (as far as commenting goes).
Not everyone is so lucky. Esquire, in fact, dedicated a short column to it in this...
Billy on Alec
There’s a great profile of Alec Baldwin in the New Yorker this week. The most insightful comment comes from his brother Billy, who was discussing Alec’s plans to make a western starring each of his siblings:
Basically, it was: Daniel’s the outlaw; I’m the riverboat gambler who gets all the pussy, the shallow, good-looking sap; Stephen’s the village idiot; and...
Secondary sourcing
For reasons that would take an annoyingly long time to explain, I’m currently living in a house without cable television. So I really have no idea what is going on at the convention other than what I learn from Google Reader. And, unless Google Reader is lying to me in a most hideous fashion, Cindy McCain’s speech tonight was atrocious. Says Megan McArdle:
Cindy McCain scares me on...
Obama Messiah Watch (Update)
(Update: Thanks to John McCormack for linking here…hopefully some of you Standardites will stick around and check things out. Three years at the ‘Standard’ makes you my people, after all. You’ll dig this blog.)
The swipe at Obama’s time as a “community organizer” (which was prompted by Obama’s dismissive attitude towards Palin’s own...
Why the Palin pick is driving the left nuts
Do you remember back around, oh, the mid to late nineties, somewhere in that time frame? Do you remember just how much Republicans hated…HATED…Bill Clinton? I didn’t think much of it at the time (I was in middle school, after all), but looking back on that time once I got to college it never made a ton of sense. Clinton was putting cops on the street; he was reforming welfare; he...
Why, hello
Thanks for coming by. This is really just a placeholder/test post. But since you took the time to stop by, I might as well make it worth your trouble by pointing you towards some of the best writing from the Olympics: Anthony Lane’s reports. Report one. Report two. Enjoy!