I was hoping it WAS The Onion.

Posted at May 11, 2008 10:06 PM in response to Between the Bible Belt and the Rust Belt, Runs the Onion Belt

Love the power analysis. It's a power thing.

Posted at May 11, 2008 8:33 PM in response to Carl Bernstein: Hillary to fight to get on Obama ticket

He's adorable.

Posted at May 11, 2008 6:11 PM in response to Beautiful Baby Josh

Not all death eaters are bad. The half-blood prince regrets that some focus on pure-blood lines--it's just a way to protect against mudblood intrusions into the established wizarding world.

Posted at May 11, 2008 6:09 PM in response to “Onward To West Virginia” - H=44 - May 6, 2008 - Pt 3

The Senator does speak senatorially--at least not as badly as Senator Kerry.

Posted at May 11, 2008 3:41 PM in response to Obama's Circumlocution

Lieutenant Worf,
First I want to thank you and honor your service to the Federation! The progressive blogosphere is generally anti-war, yet we understand the Federation has had to use force when necessary (the Borg--nuff said).

Secondly, your endorsement is no doubt going to be very influential throughout this galaxy, and perhaps the entire Quadrant! This is great news for Senator Obama!

Posted at May 11, 2008 3:35 PM in response to I, Lieutenant Worf, Endorse Barack Obama For President in Your Year 2008

Good point. Similar to Sully. I think it's important to separate the wheat (lots of good stuff about Hillary and Bill) from the chaff (plenty of not so good stuff about Hillary and Bill), and not swallow all of this WSJ argument.

Posted at May 11, 2008 1:18 PM in response to Obama Gains More Super-Delegates, AP Says He Now Leads

This is so true. With Obama it is WE and with Clinton it's ME.

Posted at May 10, 2008 12:50 PM in response to Obama, Clinton Each Get Another Super-Delegate

Robert Farley at LGM had a good post on this as well:

Here's part of it:

Yeah, there really is an echo chamber effect. The division of the progressive blogosphere into Clinton and Obama factions seems to have produced an internally reinforcing radicalization that makes preferences more intense than they would be in the general community. Having even weak arguments vetted by an ideologically sympathetic crowd of co-bloggers and commenters seems to detach these chambers from the larger community. Intragroup dynamics, in other words, seem to reward radicalism and limit perspective on empirical evidence. To the Clinton people, Obama and his allies are sexist because hey, everybody you know agrees that they're sexist. To the Obama folks, the Clintons are racist under the same logic. The medium is central to this effect; in the blogosphere, more than in any other facet of our lives, we associate with those whom we choose to associate, and consequently disassociate with those whom we find unpleasant.

Posted at May 9, 2008 7:25 PM in response to On Information-Based Empathy

Blatant, isn't she? So taking the names fff the ballot wasn't a dishonor to them? Telling voters before the election that it wouldn't count invalidated the election results.

This, plus the "hard-working Americans" comment is very unbecoming.

Posted at May 8, 2008 2:33 PM in response to Hillary Campaign Says No To New Michigan Delegate Proposal