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Where were the nerds (or the tough questions) at the White House Correspondents Dinner?
Reading all of the self-congratulation and humble-bragging ironic-self-deprecation from the D.C. press hordes and hangers-on as they fêted the President and themselves on Saturday evening at the so-called “Nerd Prom,” a friend said to me, “Hey, people know that #nerdprom is actually San Diego Comic Con, right?” The fact of…
Double standards
Reading this excerpt from Alex Pareene’s new e-book The Rude Guide To Mitt, I was particularly struck by this passage: Even the stories of Romney’s supposed temper are ridiculous. He was arrested, in June of 1981, for disorderly conduct while attempting to launch his family boat in Cochituate State Park.…
Matt Drudge’s imaginary race war
Alex Pareene at Salon has an excellent report on how Matt Drudge has spent the past few years concocting a picture of America as one torn apart by a crime-based race war, where random black people are "rising up" and attacking and killing white people. If you, like me, find…
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