What Yesterday’s Elections Mean for Democrats in 2010
Nothing. Bwahaha! Are you foolish? Did you think I would really venture into obscure local races in places I don’t give two licks about in order to determine if 2010 is going to be a good year or a bad year for the moderately kind of leftish party known as “Democrats?” The answer of course, before I dip into this exact sort of analysis, is that I wouldn’t because these things never mean anything. Take for example if there were a special election held yesterday because Clinton had won in November and Bayh was scooped up to be her VP. And what if the sir or ma’am that got elected had basically the same policies as our current junior senator? Woul

Obama’s Insidious Propaganda Machine
For reasons I may or may not get into later I was reading this August 8, 2007 Reuters story and this November 17, 2001 Globe and Mail story and I couldn’t help but think of this recent

More on Lieberman
Jonathan Bernstein is one of those people that consistently makes the kind of good arguments that persuade me think differently that I alluded to in my previous post. But not this time. On whether the time to strip Lieberman of his seniority in the Senate was in January (when the new congress took over and could reasonably have used Lieberman’s support of John McCain for the presidency as reason) Bernstein says no, that would have been too early. The thrust of his argument is, well, heck, I’ll just quote him: But it’s also becaus

My Thoughts on Joe Lieberman
I’m a vacilator, what can I say? I’m forever one good argument away from changing my mind. Those who know me and believe that I thickheadedly hold on to any view I was born with should take note: your arguments to persuade me just haven’t been very good. Now that I’ve insulted all of my friends who read this blog, I will proceed to tell you what I think about Joe Lieberman…today. In perfectly ambivalent fashion I begin “on the one hand.” On the one hand, he is a grown man, free to make educated or uneducated opinions about whatever he likes. If he prefers to go on the TeeVees and say things that prove he doesn’t know what in t

Beer Friday: Where I am now the Zizek of Zymurgy
There’s a lot embedded in this little one off rambling by Alan McLeod–a lot of stuff to chew on. And I keep going back to it over and over again. He wonders as prelude to the rambling he quotes from a comment left at another blog, whether there’s anything to what he has to say. And I think there is. Too much really. What is the quality and nature of the craft brew movement, how is success defined, is there a pop cultural achievement separable from “achievement” in a broader sense? All fine questions. I think the one Iam most enamored of though is the the one