Dave Weigel for the win on Twitter this afternoon: “Weird, Oprah has some unemployed conservative blogger on today”: For a second, I was confused. I thought he was talking about Lou Dobbs. Regardless, once I finish this round-up, I’m putting together a proposal to make our next book-of-the-month selection “Going Rogue.” I hear all the Read More
The story of Michael Oher’s intellectual development is also the story of his body type. Michael Oher is rare. Huge. A freak of nature. He’s also an anomaly of nurture and it has taken a village to raise him. The Blind Side by Michael Lewis chronicles Oher’s turbulent childhood, his unlikely ascent into professional football Read More
This weekend, in the District of Columbia, there will be the long-awaited meeting of The Families. The Grape Drink Mafia and the Juicebox Mafia. The Cold Drank Summit. The Internet should be very scared. I’m sure there will be lots of talk about health care reform, “30 Rock” and good hair, which neither blacks nor Read More
Am I the only person who didn’t know that Carlton from Fresh Prince was hosting a lame-looking show on a network I’ve never heard of? I caught a brief glimpse of a commercial for it when I went to my water cooler and, frankly, wish I didn’t even know. Though for a minute I thought Read More
(Austin is very nice though!) Rick Perry doesn’t seem to like his fellow Texans (via Politico): Texas GOP Gov. Rick Perry accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of “punishing” Texas and being “hell-bent” on turning the United States into a socialist country. Speaking at a luncheon for a Midland County Republican Women’s group, Perry said Read More
We’re tinkering with some stuff below PB’s hood, which is why all of our links are so janky right now. Our bust. Here’s some of what we missed: Conor Fredersdorf defends the Stupak Amendment in the House health care bill, which bars public money from being spent on any healthcare plans that might cover abortion.”…I’d feel Read More
I’m going to be vague on location here to avoid giving away too much, but I had a friend who just had to interview a group of homeowners in a portion of the northeast that’s very wealthy and smugly liberal. The group was concerned about a mixed-income housing unit going through the zoning approval process. Read More
(x-posted from U.S. of J.) I agree with conservatives like David Horowitz and John Hinderacker; in light of the shooting at Ft. Hood, we need to reassert and protect our values. The question of course, is the who we’re protecting our values from. Hint: it’s not Muslims. But first, a few quick points about Muslim-American Read More
We should all be afraid. House minority leader John Boehner calls health care reform “the greatest threat to freedom I have seen in my 19 years in Washington.” And Boehner would never lie, right? In the end, Democratic leadership threw a party. Republicans threw a fit. And women desiring the right to choose definitely lost. Read More
Since seeing Precious on Friday, I’ve been trying to recall another recent onscreen portrayal of evil anywhere as effective as the one offered up by Mo’Nique in the role of the title character’s mother. Javier Bardem’s unrelenting assassin in “No Country for Old Men” might qualify, but he was essentially a cartoon. Maybe Daniel Day-Lewis’s Read More
