The Flame Represents Bad Things You Shouldn’t Touch
By Ned Resnikoff - Jan 30th, 2009 at 5:11 pmMy former roommate just sent along this article, about the state of the GOP.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The only bright spot in the nation’s capital…
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What the Washington Post Considers Newsworthy
By Ned Resnikoff - Jan 29th, 2009 at 12:39 pmYesterday, Barack Obama made a throwaway line about how DC schools are too quick to cancel at the first sign of snow. Everyone had a…
Non-profit Newspapers
By Ned Resnikoff - Jan 28th, 2009 at 10:24 amThis seems like a pretty smart way to ensure the survival of those information-gathering goliaths we know as newspapers. Although if I were the owner…
The Only Pundit Mentally Ill Enough to Defend Blagojevich
By Ned Resnikoff - Jan 27th, 2009 at 11:17 am…is one Geraldo Rivera.
I have no idea what the hell Geraldo is talking about here. Not only does he never quite elucidate why he…
Like RSS Feeds for the Technologically Illiterate
By Ned Resnikoff - Jan 26th, 2009 at 10:10 amDaniel brought this to my attention a few days ago, but I didn’t have a chance to comment on it until today; it looks like…
Joe Scarborough Not Getting Any Less Irritating
By Ned Resnikoff - Jan 23rd, 2009 at 2:33 pmCheck out Ben Craw’s clever juxtaposition in the first half of this video between President Obama and Morning Joe got me wondering: Now that Obama’s…
Illegal Wiretapping: It’s Not Just For Suspected Terrorists Anymore
By Ned Resnikoff - Jan 22nd, 2009 at 12:33 pmOr, y’know, ever.
Such is the completely unsurprising revelation on last night’s Countdown. This is the first in what could very well be many pieces…
Non-believers
By Ned Resnikoff - Jan 21st, 2009 at 9:15 amNo, I don’t know that atheists should be regarded as citizens, nor should they be regarded as patriotic. This is one nation under God.
–Vice…
Saturday’s Big Gaza Protest in London
By Ned Resnikoff - Jan 19th, 2009 at 5:11 pmI was wandering around London with some friends over the weekend when we bumped into a rally protesting Israel’s incursion into Gaza. It wasn’t the…
Associating With Known Arabs
By Ned Resnikoff - Jan 16th, 2009 at 10:11 amKevin Drum wonders why the Obama team seems to have been intentionally avoiding making news out of the fact that they’re meeting with Arab-American and…
Back, and To the Left
By Ned Resnikoff - Jan 15th, 2009 at 6:01 pmIf Jonah Goldberg wants to promulgate asinine conspiracy theories, he should really just come out and say so rather than dancing around the topic with…
24: Not Actually Real
By Ned Resnikoff - Jan 14th, 2009 at 2:20 pmYou know that Fox News’ conversion from Pravda-style propaganda outlet to simply covering news from a conservapornographic parallel universe is complete when you can turn…
Joe the Junior Woodward
By Ned Resnikoff - Jan 13th, 2009 at 12:14 pmOf the awful screwball comedy that is Joe the Plumber’s stint in as a reporter, Daniel Larison says:
Like Palin’s pseudo-populism, which actually helps preserve…
Power Tripping
By Ned Resnikoff - Jan 12th, 2009 at 10:05 amVia Matthew Yglesias, Ana Marie Cox tells us some of the ways in which you can tell whether or not you are an extremely powerful…
The Absurdist University
By Ned Resnikoff - Jan 9th, 2009 at 2:15 pmCollege admissions are (thankfully) a couple years behind me, but I vaguely recall a time when overachieving students would have aneurysms over their extra-curriculars, parents…
