Granted, they’re all a bunch of soshulists wastoids out there, but this still impressed me, from reader and commenter Mwangangi: We had a turnout of about 2,700 people [roughly 2% of the entire population of the city]. I like this pic: I like it because it’s true. Not too many of the important changes of …
You lost me at “real paper”
James Fallows deserves a lot of credit for this: I’ve heard angrily from a number of reporters in the last few days. They are objecting to my claims that mainstream journalism is “enabling” Senate dysfunction by describing it as dysfunction plain and simple, rather than as the result of deliberate and extremely effective Republican strategy. …
Factually impaired
The excellent Andrew Gelman tears the execrable Gregg Easterbrook a new one. Easterbrook writes: At this point in the 1992 election cycle, the elder George Bush held an 89 percent approval rating. . . . Clinton beat a popular incumbent with a fantastic approval rating. For the 2012 election, Barack Obama is just as vulnerable …
For some strange reason it had to be
In case you were wondering whether or not Herman Cain was making a serious run…he’s not: [F]or the next two days, Herman Cain — the newest front runner in the race for the White House — is bringing his campaign here, to Tennessee, and forgoing those states that will be the earliest to cast ballots …
Song of the week
From Can’t Explain: Shudder to Think, “Hot One” (1998) I have to give it up to Shudder to Think for being such great mimics. I haven’t found much satisfaction in the albums traveling under their own name, but I think their soundtrack work is routinely great. Maybe that’s because it’s at the service of a …
This is fucked up
Probably NSFW: a cop parks his motorcycle on a protester’s leg and leaves it there while the protester writhes in pain. I’m sure Malkin and the OTB boys will be around to tell us the guy was faking any minute now.
Hate and war
I would like to say that the reason the Occupy America movement is and will continue to be successful is that Americans want to come together so save our middle-class, but I don’t believe that. I believe that the real reason the movement resonates with people is that people hate banksters. I’ve been following along …