shouting loudly

If you’ve never read Tuesday Morning Quarterback, you’re missing out. Gregg Easterbrook provides among the very best football analysis around AND some of the best social/political commentary around. It’s so good that I’d recommend it even if you’re only interested in one or the other.
Today, as part of his column, he has a roaring critique [...]

If you haven’t seen this Daily Show interview with Tony Blair, geaux thare nao, then come right back.
Two things stick out for me in a big way. First, Blair has officially drunk the Bush Doctrine, war-on-terror Kool-Aid. He explicitly equates Islamic terrorism in any country anywhere in the world–Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, and so on.
Blair mimics [...]

Here’s a minilink from Lokman:
Media Bloggers Association launches blogging insurance program
This is actually a reasonable next step for blogging as it becomes a major media outlet and big business. It’s little different than Errors & Omissions insurance for other professionals, including media producers such as filmmakers.

Again: Hey, Obama team, here’s another ad for you!
Part I (ominous music):
Sarah Palin may be a woman, but she’s no friend to women who’ve endured the unthinkable. After Palin became mayor, the town of Wasilla started charging rape victims for the tools necessary to investigate their own sexual assaults.
Part II (happy music):
Barack Obama has been a [...]

Over at HuffingtonPost, Howard Schweber has the best analysis of Obama’s ad strategy–or lack thereof.
I’m wondering if there’s anything I can do to get the campaign to start plagiarizing from BraveNewFilms ASAP. Robert Greenwald’s studio, which is posting its McCain criticisms at TheRealMcCain.com, is a national treasure.

RealNetworks’ recent decision to sell DVD ripping software, RealDVD, has the public asking: “Why not rip DVDs like CDs?”
Doing a Google News search today for the software, I got over 200 hits, many from decidedly mainstream sources like USAToday and USNews. Those of us who pride ourselves on some modicum of tech savvy have long [...]

I’m not sure which side is helped more by viral internet politics, but the email circulation of partisan political discourse is certainly becoming a more important part of the campaign.
Three bits I’ve encountered suggest some of the possibilities.
First, consider the Anne Kilkenny letter. Written by an actual Wasilla resident, it documents all the local’s concerns [...]

As a debate champion who spent 12 years in the activity, I am utterly appalled at the repugnant, personal attacks that Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin leveled at Obama and Biden tonight. I would be shocked to see such juvenile antics from a high school freshman.
If I tried to document every ad hominem blow, every sleight-of-hand [...]

There are already thousands of blog posts about the revelation that Sarah Palin’s 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, is pregnant. This post is not just another addition to the pile; rather, I think the story has a couple lessons about online political communication.
First, the (insert adjective) blogosphere has become a magic talisman in discussions of current affairs; [...]