The party of love, the party of fear. Prof. Yin is surprised by the nice, signed photo he received in the mail from the Bush campaign. They laid it on thick thanking him for his grassroots leadership, even though he is a regis…
The real difference between Kerry and Auntie Em. I'd like to remove myself from the hook for seeming to portray Kerry as not macho enough here . In fact, I don't like the non-gentle parts of his statement: "lying&quo…
Candidate Machismo Watch. This is the first entry in a projected series that will concentrate on the ways the Presidential candidates attempt to gain advantage by portraying themselves as more masculine than the other guy. There …
How is John Kerry going to keep from boring us to death over the next 8 months? The NYT has some ideas . I can't believe we won't become immediately exasperated with Kerry's oratorical style: at my house we were comp…
"Clause" not "laws." Transcripts of Thursday's debate get a word wrong in a key spot that seems to be making some people think John Kerry flip-flopped in his opinion about whether the Defense of Marriage…
Son of a post office worker. John Edwards never tires of saying that he is the son of a mill worker. Why not vary the theme occasionally and say that he's the son of a post office worker ? Does the job your father did make …
Kerry's wrong about DNA and the death penalty. Asked in the California debate about his position on the death penalty, John Kerry served up this factoid : [W]e have 111 people who have been now released from death row -- de…
"Don't burlesque me." That's a quote from Ralph Nader, speaking to Chris Matthews on Hardball Monday night. When is the last time anyone used that word as a verb in normal speech (as opposed to an English liter…