January 2008
11 posts
“The US is facing major challenges—but they are not the ones usually identified....”
– Prospect
Why He Matters →
While the Clinton campaign continues its hardball tactics, Obama gives a sermon, takes a few steps back and a deep breath:
For most of this country’s history, we in the African-American community have been at the receiving end of man’s inhumanity to man. And all of us understand intimately the insidious role that race still sometimes plays – on the job, in the schools, in our health care...
“And It turns out that Obama is “the only one of the Democratic...”
– Obama Gets A Boost From the Crucial Bicycle Swing Vote : TreeHugger
The case against Hillary Clinton. - By Christopher... →
As usual, Hitch provides the best and final word on most topics.
Are the Polls That Bad? →
Rudy goes to church.
The Candidates On Chairs →
From the comments section on this piece:
Biden: I have worked with chairs all over the world, and most members of Congress agree with my plan for how to make chairs Bloomberg: I’ve put together a committee to survey voters on whether they want me to make their chairs Clinton: I have the most experience in making chairs Edwards: I will fight the chairmakers! Giuliani: I can best protect you...
Quote For The Day →
“It is a bit of a problem, the title “Atheist”—No one really wants to be defined by what they do not believe in. We haven’t yet settled on a name, but you wouldn’t expect a Baptist minister to go around calling himself an a-Darwinist. But it is crucial that people who do not have a sky god and don’t have a set of supernatural beliefs assert their belief in...
The Purloined Letter: Ball to Hed →
“Ya know what, challenge me! Please, challenge me to go out and just in spite of you bailing, I’ll make a better wheel, a cooler wheel, a more dynamic wheel, a lighter and faster wheel - thanks very much for inspiring me!” he said. “I’ll send [Steve Hed] a thank you note!”
—Michael Ball, on Steve Hed refusing to sponsor Rock Racing
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Alinsky, Clinton, Obama →
A reader writes:
The principal difference between Hillary and Obama is not race or gender at all, but Saul Alinsky. I overstate the case, but it is worth noting that where Clinton wrote her thesis on Alinsky’s organizational theory, Obama lived it. Where he rejected it as “quaint” and moved on to law school and hitched her wagon to Bill’s star, Obama went to the church...
“I had never really wondered why there were myriad varieties of apple - Royal...”
– ‘Banana’ unpeels one fruit’s political, scientific and cultural history - The Boston Globe