Every year we have random high school graduates (I think, anyway) wander through our building trying to get “points” towards some trip by selling overpriced magazine subscriptions. That’s the pitch anyway. It’s typically prefaced by the fact that they’re working on their public speaking or something, as well.
In any case, they’re annoying and I think [...]

Pretty much the only reason to read TNR these days is Johnathan Chait, who’s one of my favorite liberal writers. His review of Naomi Klein’s recent book is a good read.

There’s a post over at Montana Headlines complaining about people attacking Bobby Jindal’s apparent belief in exorcisms. It’s a fun exercise in how we balance secularism and religious beliefs.
Whatever the phenomenon was that the youthful Jindal observed, the net effect was that it left him believing in “the reality of spirits, angels and other related [...]

I see the person with the world’s lowest merit to fame ratio is out and about. I wonder what he has to say?

“A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God’s gift of life is welcomed, respected, and cherished — not rejected, feared as a threat and destroyed,” [...]

Regardless of the ridiculous controversy over the cover, this New Yorker article on Obama is worth reading.
It’s not flattering, but it’s by no means a negative article. The man is smart and he figured out how to work Chicago’s political landscape and propel himself into the U.S. Senate. He learned from mistakes and made it [...]

Seriously, is it November yet?
I’m trying and failing to not care about this election for at least a few more months. There’s pretty clearly nothing I can do to change anything about the way things are going (which seems ok, so far, but not where it should be, in my opinion), especially now. So I [...]

You know that McCain web ad that asks if you think we should meet unconditionally with anti-American foreign leaders? There’s a yes and a no box. I clicked on the yes box and I was taken to a McCain page asking for my email or my money. It’s surprising that McCain endorses that kind of [...]

Warning: This is a pretty trivial post in the finest traditions of blogging navel-gazing. You may want to skip it if you don’t like that sort of thing.
So Craig just shut off comments on his blog. Obviously, it’s his blog and he can do what he wants. It’s an interesting subject, though.
I’m always a little [...]

This is great. McCain put out an economic plan (in the loosest sense of the word) that was purportedly signed by 300 economists. The catch being that some of them don’t even agree with that plan, but signed a short, vague statement about McCain’s broader economic perspective.
It seems the McCain camp is getting tips from [...]

I’ve been ignoring this for some reason. The initial outrage was based on an inaccurate AP story, but there’s still a lot to think about.
On the second day of a weeklong tour intended to highlight his values, Mr. Obama traveled to the battleground state of Ohio on Tuesday to present his proposal to get [...]