Apparently Fox News is no longer content being the voice of the GOP, and has decided to become the voice of Christianity, as well: Brit Hume had some advice for Tiger Woods during this week’s “Fox News Sunday.” Woods will recover as a golfer, Hume says, but it remains to be seen whether he will …
Archives for January 2010
Your All In One NFL Open Thread
I’m not dead, but I feel like I am close. Another day of zinc, vitamin C, decongestant, and La-Z-Boy. Good thing is I have no fever, just those full body aches and the sinus and chest stuff. I’m being philosophical about this- I’m just getting a few of the shitty days of 2010 out of …
It kind of is a silver bullet, though
From a pretty interesting article about 2010 House fundraising: Harrison acknowledges that nearly every one of the party’s challengers will be outspent next year, and he has been training recruits to run lean and effective underdog campaigns. But he also noted that Republicans were greatly outspent in nearly every race in the wave year of …
Nowhere to run to
I’m watching John’s show here — CBS Sunday Morning — and they’re talking to Chris Hitchens and Jon Meacham. Is nothing sacred?
Open Thread
Watching Forbidden Kingdom on Showtime, another cheesy Jackie Chan vehicle, and I must just be a sucker for these things, but I’m having a lot of fun. At any rate, it features the drunken fist style, and that reminded me of one of the classics: The drunken master style was the most fun of the …
Interesting, but completely wrong
Over at the Atlantic, Andrew Cohen has an anti-mass media screed that I very much enjoyed reading but also think is completely wrong. Here’s a sample: “Democracy demands wisdom” sounds great as a slogan but no has any relevance in a world where even the highly educated don’t take the time to sort sizzle from …
The event of the decade
I realize this is probably childish and nihilistic, but I consider Stephen Colbert’s routine at the at the 2006 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner to be the political highlight of the past decade. I was surprised to learn that Colbert thought about taking it even farther and that Tony Snow and Antonin Scalia were complimentary …