Archive for October 6th, 2008

  • Break out Plan B — for “Bullshit.”

    A top McCain adviser signaled last week that the campaign intends to “turn the page” from economic issues — which polls show have staked Obama to a significant lead — and ramp up attacks on Obama as an inexperienced ultraliberal.
    “I know the policies he’s supported these past eight years and wants to continue are pretty [...]

  • Please do not feed or annoy the morons.

    No comment, literally:
    CLEARWATER — Constantly under the watchful eyes of security, the media wasn’t permitted to wander around inside Coachman Park to talk to Sarah Palin supporters. When reporters tried to leave the designated press area and head toward the bleachers where the crowd was seated, an escort would dart out of nowhere and confront [...]

  • the unpollable

    From a profile of Lionel Trilling in a recent New Yorker:
    A key perception of “The Liberal Imagination” is that most human beings are not ideologues. Intellectual coherence is not a notable feature of their politics. People’s political opinions may be rigid; they are not necessarily rigorous. They tend to float up out of some mixture [...]