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(Last week he fucked around and got a triple-double.) Also, as other people who play ball may have peeped, he isn’t completely relying on the OldHead Game (which mainly consists of hitting cutters and draining long jumpers). He actually moves pretty well for a smoker in his 40’s.

Bill Richardson tells GQ why he broke with the Clintons to endorse Obama.

Barney Frank wants to introduce legislation that decriminalize medical marijuana use. We won’t go on a rant about the country’s misbegotten drug policy, but there’s no way this gains any traction in the House. Or is there?

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

(This was September 13, 2001, by the way.) Frank Schaeffer, the son of influential Christian conservative Francis Schaeffer, isn’t surprised. “When Senator Obama’s preacher thundered about racism and injustice Obama suffered smear-by-association,” he wrote in a column for the Huffington Post. “But when my late father — Religious Right leader Francis Schaeffer — denounced America Read More

Obama’s big speech in Philadelphia zoomed in and out with brave deftness and surprising candor. He denounced Rev. Wright’s comments but not Rev. Wright. He talked about his white grandmother’s casual racism. He touched on America’s sad racial history (in great detail), but said that the country was not “irrevocably tied to it.” And maybe Read More
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