"Their car windows were plastered with American-flag decals, their ideological totems. In the bumper-sticker dialogue of the freeways, they answered Make Love Not War with Honor America or Spiro is My Hero. They sent Richard…
(Via Andrew Sullivan .) ADDED: I don't remember seeing that ad, which seems to be from the early 70s period when I didn't have a TV — and when things like that would have driven me to ranting about "Stepford Wives&qu…
... with facts that Rich should be quite embarrassed not to have checked. ADDED: Rich also asserts that Thomas never turns a critical eye on Republicans. Rich stresses Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy" and write…
Andrew Sullivan has this elaborate generational analysis: One difference between Obama and Clinton does not seem to me to have been stressed enough. They are of different Democratic generations. Clinton is from the traumatized ge…
But linking to the whole segment means his supporters will get immersed in our idiosyncratic free-flowing discussion that includes the gelatinous blob diet pill, pro-anorexia websites, the creative ways kids find to get high, a…
A couple days back, my son John IM'd me -- from his bar review class -- a question he had about the presidential debates. Why do they keep the Democrats and the Republicans separated? After I gave my instant reaction -- becau…
So, we've established that "naked" is funnier than "nude," and now I feel like this is a subject comics have riffed on hundreds of times. I'm trying to find some good examples of this. Oh! Wikipedia h…
You read the transcript yesterday. You saw the clip. Now, you've seen the whole interview. Impressions? Knowing he was going to get mad, I watched him carefully before he got mad. He had a very relaxed and jovial manner as h…
Lawprof Akhil Reed Amar wants Dick Cheney to argue free speech, not official immunity, to win the lawsuit brought by Valerie Plame. To argue immunity is to snuggle up alongside of Richard Nixon in the case law: Wouldn't it m…
Here 's a long piece by Hog on Ice about the Hunter S. Thompson suicide. ("I guess that if there's anything more ignominious than scrambling your own brain because you wasted your life and you can't write any mor…
There are a lot of updates -- mostly about Nixon -- on this post from yesterday. I've got lots of prepping and teaching most of today, including this extra seminar, but I'll be back later in the day.
Today, I was struggling to drag out the gigantic, three-paneled whiteboard contraption in my classroom when the handle came off, and I fell on the floor right in front of fifty students. The class was Constitutional Law, and the …
Page Six has this : OLIVER Stone plans to explore the possibility of an affair between former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President Ronald Reagan in his next movie. Stone has apparently always been enamored of Ba…
I've already blogged about the real extra we're looking forward to seeing on the "Alexander" DVD, but there's also this , from Video Store Magazine: The possibilities for disc extras are plentiful, from a r…
The NYT is helping Oliver Stone lay the foundation for the excuse he's planning to use when his movie "Alexander" bombs. (I pointed out Stone's plan here .) Here's the NYT: As the culture wars rage anew bet…
So John Kerry seems to have gotten one of those dark spray-on tans. He's done this before. Back when he was on "Meet the Press" in April, Chris commented : He has the Charlize Theron tan. You realize it's like …
" Bizarro Gordon " is offering up political commentary as a guest blogger at Venturpreneur, to compensate for regular blogger Gordon Smith's aversion to talking about politics. BG's first post links to the "…
Kerry cranked out a dismal performance on David Letterman's show last night. He alternated between rerunning lines from his stump speech and plodding through scripted jokes. Unlike Nixon on "Laugh-In" and other can…
Here 's Kerry today: "I've got two words for companies like Halliburton that abuse the American taxpayer and trust, 'you're fired.'" He didn't do the cobra strike hand gesture though. He did a do…
I watched a few of the news shows yesterday, including that Dan Rather "60 Minutes" interview with the feisty octogenarian Marian Carr Knox, whose line "I know that I didn't type them, however, the information…