Archive for May 30th, 2009
Late Night Video: Young Conservative Anthem
Apparently, this is supposed to be serious. Is this supposed to attract young people to the party? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkeZ2P4SiY8&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Truthfully, I couldn’t even get through the whole thing because the gestures were distracting me.
The Method to His Madness.
Or rather, his calmness, or coolness…. President Barack Obama is a shrewd, intelligent politician and tactician. Those on the right who think he is stupid, or nothing but a speechmaker who cannot think without a teleprompter, have severely underestimated their opponent, almost irredeemably so. President Obama knows all too well the nature of his opponents. […]
Don’t Let Your Children Become Lawyers…
I have been in court all week, hence my lack of posts here, and thus the lack of Around the Horn Friday on Friday. Luckily, it was a slow week, what with the Memorial Day Holiday. So next Friday, I will post an extra large Around the Horn Friday for your reading pleasure. For those […]
What am I listening to?
A well-known activist—an anarchic, revolutionary activist—is accused of spying on other activists for the FBI. The strangest thing about the rumor is, it’s true. How Brandon Darby transformed from cop-hater to federal witness. Also…Madison Winn. Accused of being a communist.
My New Favorite Wine
This stuff is the bomb. Riondo Prosecco Spago Nero You can take that to the bank.
Steele Declares Viriginia Is For Republicans
Grandmaster Steele is predicting a Republican win in the Virginia Gubernatorial Race in November 2010: I would like to congratulate Bob McDonnell for being selected by Virginia Republicans today as their candidate for governor. It is going to be a tough fight, but we are well positioned for victory in November. Given Steele’s inability to […]
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Republicans, fight among yourselves. First, we have Newt Gingrich tweeting from Auschwitz that Sotomayor is a racist. And former Congressman Tom Tancredo doubles down by calling La Raza equivalent to the KKK. Senator John Cornyn is obviously worried about the perception that the war on Sotomayor will take down the entire Republican party, saying this: […]
Nemski’s Music For the Masses: A Mixtape
I’m no Nick Hornby but his affections for football, music and literature are ones that I hold as well. In Hornby’s book High Fidelity, he writes about the art of the mixtape: To me, making a tape is like writing a letter — there’s a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good […]
Delaware in the spotlight
oh boy where are they going to run now: This is from a NY Times piece that is also now featured on Huffingtonpost Wall Street, Sand Hill Road, LaSalle Street: Some corporate addresses scream money. Then there is North Orange Street, which whispers it. North Orange, a ho-hum thoroughfare in Wilmington, Del., is, on paper, […]
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