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Nicholas Kristof hearts McCain

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Looks like Krugman is taking some indirect pot shots at fellow Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. I was amazed myself when I read Kristof’s column. Hypocrisy is alright, abandoning your “principles” is alright, so long as you’re not totally comfortable about it and so long as your name is John McCain.

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Independent Thinking

Thursday, February 14, 2008

The Courant has seen fit to give one Robert Thorson a weekly column on its op-ed page. Mr. Thorson is a geology professor at UConn, so he presumably knows a lot about rocks. Unfortunately, he writes about politics, at least he did today. One must wonder why the Courant sees fit to give this person […]

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McCain and Bloomberg: centrists both, if you disregard their positions on the issues

Saturday, February 9, 2008

I am horribly confused. Michael Bloomberg’s fantasy of running for president as a “centrist” candidate has officially foundered, according to Chuck Hagel, now that John McCain has locked up the Republican nomination. Why? Well, apparently, according to the Times, Bloomberg is a moderate and a centrist, and so is McCain. These adjectives, in McCain’s case, […]

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The Day Loves them some McCain

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

You had to go beneath the fold of this morning’s Day to see a mention of a Democrat. The headline was all Rs, and the meanest, biggest, bestest R of them all was big John McCain, the maverick Republican from Arizona.Y ou know, he’s such a maverick that he complains a little before doing what […]

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America’s Mayor

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Via Atrios, I couldn’t resist: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH47iuMTuC8[/youtube]

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The Times: what FISA bill?

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

I realize that it is mandatory that the press cover the State of the Union address, so I am not criticizing the New York Times for doing so. However, it is emblematic of all that is wrong with the press in this nation that the real important event that took place yesterday, the fact that […]

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Poor George, people are ignoring his economic miracle

Monday, January 28, 2008

We adjourned our Charter Revision Commission early enough to allow for members to watch the State of the Union. I’m no masochist, so I won’t be tuning in. In fact, I’ll soon be turning in, because I’m dead tired. But I did want to point out this very interesting phenomenon, which Dean Baker points out […]

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The Day hearts USA Today

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Today we readers of the Day are invited to vote among several new “looks” for the Day, each of which is a variation on the USA Today theme of less is less. Each dedicates more space on the lead pages (not sure about inside pages) to useless graphics. Needless to say, “none of the above” […]

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Serious news aversion

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

From this morning’s Times: The ousted editor of The Los Angeles Times on Monday offered a scathing critique of the newspaper industry and specifically his longtime employer, the Tribune Company, arguing that cost cuts, a lack of investment and an aversion to serious news was damaging the business. (Emphasis added) Could this be? Could the […]

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Questions we’d like to hear asked

Thursday, January 17, 2008

A friend from college, presently living in Canada, wrote me about the presidential elections, and included a list of questions that he would like to see posed to the presidential candidates. I assume he won’t mind if I borrow from that email and pass them on. There’s nothing particularly special about these specific questions. His […]

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