Political side note, some brazen shenanigans are going down in the Republican race. Apparently in midst of the beat down Governor Mike Huckabee was given John McCain this weekend, Republicans in Washington State straight stopped counting ballots after McCain got a slight lead in the caucuses. They just, straight up, stopped the vote count with…

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Yet another article on the Obama movement turning into a cult of personality. I used to like Paul Krugman’s columns for the NYT, but this is one especially insulting. Back Hillary if you must, Paul, but don’t insult my intelligence. I chose Obama out of my own free will, not because Michelle Obama water-boarded me…

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Grammys. Don’t like ’em. Usually because they’re meaningless. Por ejemplo: Milli Vanilli winning Best New Artist leading to the lip sync controversy heard around the world. Legendary guitarist Carlos Santana finally winning a Grammy in the 1990s after cramming an album full of the youngest talent he could find. Canadian indie rocker Feist in the…

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Wasted a lot of time stumbling through the internet and reading news articles, punctuated with some Saturday and Sunday election gazing. Now I’m watching Obama on “60 Minutes.” But despite Obama plowing through Saturday’s affairs and posting up a crazy blowout I’ve been mostly blase. I might have election burn out. Or at least news…

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Sometimes jokes write themselves. I first saw this last night on Countdown with Keith Oldbermann. (They even have their own Web site. Donate now!) I have no idea why this would ever be a good idea unless some freepers think that if they put a prominent black woman on the ticket she could cancel out…

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It was only a matter of time. Barack Obama, what a fellow. He’s popular, good-looking, charming. He can effectively leave a crowd in thrall with stump speeches that borrow a twinkle of Jesse and a heaping of Martin. But you know? Something’s just not right about all those folks liking him so much, all those…

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Well, duh. From the Talking Points Memo: In an interview with a local news station in Maine, Bill Clinton admitted that he’d erred by over-zealously defending Hillary in the run-up to the South Carolina primary. Asked by a reporter if he regretted his perceived attacks on Obama, he replied … “The mistake that I made…

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