Magic Number: 283

Media poobahs like Marc Ambinder and Jonathan Singer are just starting to pick up on the “magic number” meme. Once again, TPD was ahead of the pack.
MyDD :: Obama’s Magic Number: 283
Obama’s Magic Number: 283
by Jonathan Singer, Thu May 01, 2008 at 12:39:28 PM EST
This may be the first time that I’ve seen […]

Intelligent Design?

Intelligent Design? « The FAIL Blog
Oh my.

Road rage … over a vodka ad?

Michelle Malkin » Absolut arrogance and the advertising agency behind the reconquista ad
You know what has been heartening the past two days as reaction to the Absolut Reconquista ad continues to pour in? The fact that so many of you still take our sovereignty seriously and are willing to give voice to your concerns without […]

Bat signal answered

Commissioner Cole put out the alert.
BatClif responds Sadly, No! » How Bright Could This Woman Be?
If all this makes no sense, then start here. It’s funny enough without the pile-on. But the pile-on is pretty good too.
“Income?” “Profits?” Isn’t that stuff just liberal propaganda?

Mr. Google’s Guidebook

Whimsley: Mr. Google’s Guidebook
Whimsley Hall is now strewn, like Miss Haversham’s house, with cobwebs and dust. Most visitors no longer come in by the front door to take a tour. Instead, Mr. Google (a travel agent who doubles as our butler) directs them straight down to the basement where the family archives are kept and […]

McCain Girls and Hillary Girl

Maybe the McCain girls will be swayed by this dramatic video of Hillary under fire in Tuzla:

Too much Obama-bashing at Hot Air?

Now blogging at Hot Air, Ed Morrissey picks up on Chris Wallace calling out his Fox News colleagues for their excessive Obama-bashing.
Ed concurs. “Yes, yes … this was over the top .. too much Obama-bashing.”
I counted 22 Obama-bashing posts in the last 72 hours at Hot Air, which is their privilege. (A shout-out to my […]

Intermittent Blogging

As my regular readers know, I periodically blog ordinary, high-profile news, or then go off on obsessive tears on obscure subjects of little interest, and then have not much to say about anything for a while. That’s where I am now.
So in lieu of reading two dozen inconsequential blog posts of mine for the past […]

Get over it kid!

I am actually old enough to remember a time when any careless slip a person made didn’t immediately get circulated globally. Yeah, that era pretty much sucked.

Move over, Gary Brolsma

Hope Will Not Be Televised: Obama YouTube vs. Clinton Clash

While cable news shows gorge on campaign sparring, Obama’s uplifting speech is absolutely dominating YouTube. The 34-minute address from Ebenezer Baptist Church is currently the fourth most viewed video in the world on YouTube, trailing two Britney Spears clips. Not only is that unusual traffic for […]

Bloodspite emails

Techography - Politburo Dictation
He finds the juxtaposition of Ann Coulter, Pit Bill (Clinton), Michelle Obama, and John Kerry, by a conservative who claims to have been mugged by reality, … well .. amusing.
“You think I am a clown, here to amuse you?” - Joe Pesci.

Sully Smackdown

One of his readers emails:
I see you quote with approval Maureen Dowd’s column on Clinton’s tears. Every day you tell us how much we need Obama’s reasonable, fresh, high-minded vision of unity, and every day you pour gas on the fire by elaborating, just like Dowd, all of your personal resentments about Clinton and her […]

Happy New Year, John Cole!

Strong As An Ox And Nearly As Smart: The New Republic Lost in the Fog of a ‘Baghdad Diarist’
How could that be possible? A dog does not get severed by a 21-inch tread attached to a 25-ton vehicle, it gets crushed.

Buddy demonstrates how much of a dog - Buddy is much larger than a typical […]

The Golden Wingnut

courtesy of Kevin Drum at The Washington Monthly
THE GOLDEN WINGNUT AWARD….The Wingnut Contest is over and the votes have now been tallied by the prestigious accounting firm of Pollhost.com. So without further ado, the five winners of the Golden Wingnut Award are:
1. John Hinderaker: “It must […]

More traffic-building blog pimpage

This post is for some of the very astute, perceptive, and insightful commenters at Innocent Bystanders.

Xenophon, Anabasis, I.9
[19] Furthermore, whenever [Cyrus] saw that a man was a skillful and just administrator, not only organizing well the country over which he ruled, but producing revenues, he would never deprive such a man of territory, but […]