Republican Convention, Night One

Name your poison. Here are tonight’s speakers. Now, which of the following SUVs corresponds to Rudy Giuliani, Joni Ernst, Scott Baio, and Melania Trump? Even for Republicans, giving opportunities to speak to their convention to people who lost family members in car accidents which happened to involve undocumented immigrants is in pretty poor taste, as …

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I hate call-in polls

Egad. The Discovery Channel had one of those awful call-in polls selecting the “100 Greatest Americans,” and Kevin Drum and his commenters go off on it. I’m not gonna bother (it’s being scorned quite well without me piling on), but if you want to be astonished/amused/disturbed, go look at it. Some of the more egregious …

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