The Real Bill Ayers

Politics 17 November 2008 | 1 Comment

I started a draft of a post about Bill Ayers shortly after Sarah Palin began using his name as a synonym for the terrorist euphemism the Republicans created circa 2001. But while the original tone of the piece was meant to be in defense of Ayers, it began to shift into a condemnation of Palin [...]

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Post Debate Analysis: Joe the Plumber Edition

Election08, Politics 16 October 2008 | 1 Comment

Once again, I slacked off and missed the liveblogging, depriving you all of my witty commentary. My deepest apologies. I only hope that a lengthy post-debate analysis will make up for it.

First, the format. This was my favorite format so far. The close proximity forced them to look at and interact with each other, although [...]

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Big News!

Election08, Politics 9 October 2008 | 0 Comments

In an effort to seem relevant, John McCain’s campaign announced that they would have big news sometime this morning, but they couldn’t talk about what it was. After all of McCain’s crazy stunts I thought it would be that he was going off to hunt down bin Laden, or personally buying off every bad [...]

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