Press Priorities
Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto noticed something interesting about the priorities of the Associated Press: An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We’d like to compare this dispatch to the AP’s dispatch earlier this week “fact checking” Sarah Palin’s new book. Here goes: Number of AP reporters assigned to story: ObamaCare bills: 2 Palin book: 11 Number of pages in document being covered:

Font Memories
As a bit of a typography geek, I laughed at myself for having noticed many of the things mentioned in this New York Times article. (The sloppy spacing of the word “lean” on that subway sign has always annoyed me.) I posted a link to the Times piece on my Facebook page, and it ignited a discussion of the fontumentary Helvetica, and of course the typeface of the same name. It reminded me of the first time I noticed Helvetica in wid

2009 Elections Had Nothing to Do With Obama?
Yesterday, two states held elections for governor. Last year, both states voted to elect President Obama. Now, a year after The Ascension of The One, in both states, Republican gubernatorial candidates won handily. In Virginia, Republican candidate Bob McDonnell beat Democrat Creigh Deeds by more than 17%.* This in a recently-trending-Democrat state that Obama carried by more than 6%. That’s nearly a 24% swing in one year.

Gore, Clinton and Obama in Heaven
From an e-mail that’s been circulating recently, the Joke of the Day: Al Gore, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama go to heaven. God addresses Gore first. “Al, what do you believe in?” Gore replies: “Well, I believe that I won that election, but that it was your will that I did not serve. And I’ve come to understand that now.” God thinks for a second and says: “Very good. Come and sit at my left.” God then addresses Clinton. “Bill, what do you believe in?” Clinton replies: “I believe in forgiveness. I’ve sinned, but I’ve never held a grudge against my fellow man,

A Perfect Example of “Politically Correct” Bigotry
According to the NAACP, white politicians should not be permitted to represent majority-black voting populations: Leaders of the Maryland NAACP, worried that a Baltimore mayor’s criminal conviction could result in the appointment of a white or Republican leader who may not fully represent the majority black and Democratic city, are asking state lawmakers to strip the governor of authority to permanently fill the office. [...] “There is that possibility of a conviction, and we want to know those protocols that are in pla