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The above is from an e-mail making its way around the innanets. (We just got back from the gym and can’t muster the energy for even perfunctory indignation.)

Kwame Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty are supposed to be arraigned today on perjury charges. Yesterday, Kilpatrick said again that he wasn’t goin’ nowhere. Depending on your perspective, dude is either standing strong or the perfect picture of obdurance. We’re trying to find a poll to see how much public support Kilpatrick has; Detroiters might have Read More

We’ve been trying to figure out if this is, you know, delightfully amateurish. Or intentionally awful. Or unintentionally awful.

Ta-Nehisi, again: There’s an interesting debate about Obama’s speech going on between Ross Douthat and Andrew Sullivan over at the Atlantic’s site. Sullivan sees the Right’s reaction to Obama’s speech as tinged with racism, while Douthat thinks that the problem is that the Right is, well, Right. I think Douthat has a point, but with Read More

A few years ago, the parents of a childhood friend of mine were going through a divorce. Her dad had had an affair with a woman who worked at a bank, whom everyone knew, and everyone knew it. It had gone on for some time, and my Arkansas hometown is a small one. The divorce Read More

This morning Bill Richardson, a longtime friend of Bill Clinton who rushed to defend Hillary Clinton when she was attacked in the early Democratic debates, threw his endorsement behind Barack Obama. Richardson (or as MSNBC oddly referred to him in their subhead, “Hispanic Governor”) was being courted aggressively by both campaigns, though he told the Read More

This is actually the funniest stuff he’s ever said in his career. But we don’t think he was trying to be funny. (Hat-tip Brokey.)
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