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"A Veritable Who-fest"

A reader writes:

Thanks for the Doctor Who theme mashup. I think that show and I switchedDNA somewhere when I was a kid, as evidenced by the uncontrollable smileand comfy TV chair dance I do whenever I hear the theme song. Thank youalso for bringing up the Doctor's inherent decency. It's funny toreflect what the show has meant to me in my life having had sort of atypical broken family experience and having been raised in some smallway by the TV as a result. Choosing The Doctor as an early...

Mickey On Journo-List, Ctd

Reihan clarifies and defends himself:

What I take strong exception to is the notion that I wrote my JList
column out of careerist motivation rather than a nice guy motivation.

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Yglesias Award Nominee

"We noted yesterday the controversy over the Obama administration's reaction to Scotland's proposed release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohment al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds, i.e., the claim that he was about to die. Foreign newspapers quoted a letter from a U.S. Embassy official in London, Richard LeBaron, which said that the U.S. would prefer that Megrahi not be released, but that if he were to be let go, the Obama administration thought it was "far preferable" to free Megrahi ...

Bill O'Reilly: More Pro-Gay Than Barack Obama

I kid you not. Or maybe just not paralyzed by Clintonian fear.
















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Hathos Alert

Wait for the hallelujah:

(Hat tip: Nerdcore)

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Peak Islamophobia

Serwer that the political wilderness has made Republicans less tolerant of Muslims:

As one of Josh Marshall's readers suggests, what's happened here is exactlywhat happened with torture, Gitmo, and using civilian trials to tryterrorists. Free from the shackles of responsible governance and havingto defend a Bush administration that insisted on characterizingIslam as a "religion of peace," they can give free rein to theirprejudices and preferences. Hence the myth that Bush didn't have...

On Walt, Mearsheimer, Weiss, Greenwald And Me, Ctd

Pejman pushes back. There's a blizzard of ad hominem insults, but no argument so far as I can see, except that we should all be careful before we write for fear of unintended consequences. I understand the point, and will try to be more vigilant about hyperbole (blogs are real-time thoughts and not the place for truly considered writing), but I have to say this is not my view of what writers should do in general, regardless of the form we are using. I think our core responsibility is to tell ...

That Go-Tee

"Last night cannot be unseen. Yes, we all shared a few laughs as you
gave us your list of reasons for the transformation, but our laughter
turned to tears when we realized the clean-shaved Jon Stewart we knew
and loved was naught but a memory," - style blogger Rika Nurrahmah, begging the Daily Show host to shave off his new go-tee.

As a strong supporter of facial hair, I do wish to concur with Stewart himself when he noted that he was twenty years late with the go-tee. Damn right. Go for the f...

Colbert Bait

Monkey wrangles goat (which is close enough to a lamb).
















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The Money Bush Threw At Iraq

$8 billion - and no accounting of it? That's the GOP we have come to know and love, isn't it? And notice how this story has stirred minimal outrage on the bloggy right. If $8 billion were going to the poor in America, you'd sure hear of it. Juan Cole:

In the chaotic days after the fall of the Baath government and the collapse of the old economy, Paul Bremer & Co. attempted to jump-start the Iraq market economy by giving out large sums in brown paper bags with no questions asked. They did not...