Here’s an interesting interview with Phillip Gourevitch, who wrote the Rwanda book I wrote about a while back. He also recently wrote a profile of John Kerry for the New Yorker. He’s talking about the campaign and the press, and he says this: Then there’s always this kind of presumption of the incredible stupidity of …
From the WaPo’s White House Briefing today: Vice President Cheney speaks at campaign rallies in Yakima, Wash., and Central Point, Ore., today. On Saturday, he speaks at a Disabled American Veterans convention in Reno, Nev., and then at campaign rallies in Tucson, Ariz., and Rio Rancho, N.M. Jeff Jones writes in the Albuquerque Journal: “Some …
In his speech Senator Kerry said this: We have it in our power to change the world. But only if we’re true to our ideals – and that starts by telling the truth to the American people. As president, that is my first pledge to you tonight. As president, I will restore trust and credibility …
Here’s Michael B?rub? on USA Today & Ann Coulter, Cal Thomas, and wingnut-skulls-a-poppin’. Here’s Jon Stewart on Bush vs. Bush, in case you haven’t seen it. And for another use of media as featured on Fresh Air today, here’s an exhibition of campaign ads from 1952-2004.
I like Ann Richards, the former Governor of Texas. Here’s part of what she said about Bush the other day: “You know,” she began, in that famous Texas twang, “for American women in a Republican majority, their president has been like a marriage that’s gone from bad to worse. You know the story. The guy …
I’ve been busy all day trying to figure out how to measure the volume of a single drop of liquid from an eye drop bottle. Did you know that thing has a trademarked name? It’s called a “Droptainer.” In the meantime, courtesy of Sue, here’s a cautionary tale about your next pizza order.
The best line I’ve read from a blogger regarding yesterday’s events is unquestionably this one from Tom Tomorrow: “Later, Jimmy Carter arrives, and isn’t it strange when you wake up having no idea that you’re going to meet a former President of the United States before you go back to bed that night?”
If you’ve been harmed by a drug that FDA has approved, your ability to sue the manufacturer has just been curtailed. Allowing consumers to sue manufacturers would “undermine public health” and interfere with federal regulation of drugs and devices, by encouraging “lay judges and juries to second-guess” experts at the F.D.A., the government said in …
In the “News you can use” department, here are some links to Democratic convention blogs/feeds blatantly stolen from Talk Left: Boston D Party (Semi-official blog) ConventionBloggers (RSS Feed) DNC Bloggers (Feedster RSS Feed) Technorati (In partnership with CNN) C-Span’s schedule of gavel-to-gavel coverage Technorati may not be quite ready yet; that link goes to a …
Six in a row? The mind boggles. Now let’s see Armstrong win when he’s got a canvas bag with forty newspapers inside it balanced on his handlebars, like I used to do. He needs some sort of handicap, doesn’t he? More congratulatory notes go to Molly and The Eck, as they were inducted into the …