The problem with McCain-Palin, condensed

Mccain and Palin and their ilk don’t laugh. They patronize. They don’t smile, they snicker. They don’t debate, they denigrate. They don’t talk, they condescend. They don’t argue, they ridicule. There is a nastiness, a mean-spiritedness, a smug certitude, and a profound and baseless arrogance seething from both of them. These aren’t leaders. They’re not even grownups.

Van Taylor piles on

Van Taylor wants you to know Van is mad at Murtha for something he didn’t actually say. The Miami Sun-Sentinel misquoted him and no one checked the quote (sounds like …

Working the Refs

Eric Alterman, with yet another (quite apt) sports analogy about the media: Much of the public believes the myth about the so-called liberal media, and the media themselves have been …

Letter to Frist

There were myriad unwise words said today in the Senate. These undoubtedly were the unwisest: On the same day that a federal judge whose family was assassinated testified to the …