Are you effing kidding me with this?!* McCain has just announced that he will be suspending his campaign so he can pitch in with the financial crisis. He also wants to put off Friday’s debate. Ben “In The Tank” Smith at Politico: Both candidates have been marginal players; McCain, though, seems to have the potential Read More
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ musings on “white music” and “black music” got me thinking about my relationship to music in general. I grew up in a largely white suburb in Virginia Beach (though, my next door neighbors on both sides were brown folks), and went to largely white elementary, middle and high schools. Indeed, church was the Read More
This ad, from a 527 group called Freedom’s Defense Fund, is running in Michigan, where Obama has jumped out to a bit of a lead. (There’s another one with your boy Jeremiah Wright.) It’s a bit of a reach. Adam Serwer: Obama’s links to Kilpatrick are practically nonexistent, and one group intends to run ads Read More
Rick Davis. [photo from the NYT] I’m not sure what the McCain camp is doing. (But one gets the sense that they don’t know, either.) The other day Steve Schmidt and Rick Davis, McCain’s top advisors, went apeshit after a Times story that reported that Davis took millions of dollars as a lobbyist for Freddie Read More
Damn. What got into Campbell Brown?
[vodpod id=ExternalVideo.697637&w=425&h=350&fv=] (Or “How America Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Nerds.” )
Dear American: I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you Read More
“It doesn’t make Tolstoy look bad, it makes the Nobel Prize look bad.” — Jacob Weisberg on The Emmys snubbing The Wire one last time. [h/t: Ta-Nehisi]
[Photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bayard Rustin via The Kitchen Table] Back when The Root debuted, I read it every few days (sorry, I can’t bring myself to read it now, not even for a pithy round-up). I generally went there to read “Down From The Tower,” a running conversation on politics and Read More
I had a quibble with G.D.’s otherwise fantastic weekend round-up. Margaret Cho, who confessed her dirty dreams about a certain Republican vice-presidential nominee, wasn’t being sexist. In fact, if she had left out the last line, it could have been the most solidly feminist thing she could have done. I understand the point, though it’s Read More
