I was listening to a week’s worth of NPR podcasts while walking my dog and noticed two things that, on the balance, leave the moral order of the universe intact.  Or at least the background entropy remains undetectable to the naked eye, or the earbudded ear, or what-have-you.
First, a good way to measure progress is [...]

Remember when it was a huge deal for pro-McCain preachers–or, for that matter, anyone–to refer to Obama by his full name, emphasizing Hussein?  It meant you were playing up the association that the he was a closet Muslim Manchurian Candidate (a Uighur Candidate?) or at least was “Palin pallin’ around with terraists.”  (Or the Antichrist.)
OK, [...]

I began downloading the New Yorker’s Political Scene podcast because a blogger I read regularly said it was among the best out there.  It’s only 15 minutes long and comes out every Thursday.
I think it’s shit.  Writers like Ryan Lizza and George Packer sound much more smug and condescending when moderated by editor Dorothy Wickenden—herself [...]

I missed this the other day.  Odious reptile Lanny Davis, who was one of Hillary Clinton’s top advisers in her presidential bid, amplified the conservative fallacy that Sonia Sotomayor is somehow a radical racist.
“She misspoke,” said Lanny Davis, a White House lawyer and spokesman for President Bill Clinton. “Every day that goes by that they [...]

Let’s just see how far conservatives have fallen in their ability to kick the shit out of liberals and Democrats.  In 2004, nothing tore through that overcautious cipher John Kerry like the “I actually voted for the war before I was against it” meme.  That, and the associated “flip-flopper” attack made it clear who was [...]