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The Corruption Of Journo-list

The latest revelations from Journo-list are deeply depressing to me. What's depressing is the way in which liberal journalists are not responding to events in order to find out the truth, but playing strategic games to cover or not cover events and controversies in order to win a media/political war.

The far right is right on this: this collusion is corruption. It is no less corrupt than the comically propagandistic Fox News and the lock-step orthodoxy on the partisan right in journalism ...

The Guardian's Schadenfreude

Since Murdoch imposed a pay-wall on the Times and Sunday Times of London, online readership has plunged by around 90 percent.
















Times - Guardian - paywall - Rupert Murdoch - Newspaper

Gunning For Butters

His vote for Kagan means a primary challenge.
















South Carolina - United States - Lindsey Graham - Primary challenge - Elena Kagan

Angle And The Moderates

Maybe Josh was right:

[W:]here Lowden trailed Reid only 51-41 with moderate voters, Angle is facing a 64-28 deficit. The price of nominating Angle for Nevada Republicans appears to be 26 points with moderate voters.

Nevada - Republican - United States - Harry Reid - Sharron Angle

The Coalition's Pragmatism

Bagehot updates us on the search for common ground in British politics:

Unsurprisingly, lots of figures in the magic circle of the Coalitionare getting good at coming up with solutions for problems, or at leastanalyses of problems, that bridge (or at least paper over) that divide.They offer pragmatic, often rather modest sounding proposals, with abit of a market tinge (lots of talk about consumer choice and peoplepower). These modest proposals have the great virtue of not...

Rahm Salivates

What if he got evangelical support for immigration reform by throwing gay couples (yet again) under the bus? Would anything make him happier?
















Immigration - Law - Anti-Immigration - Barack Obama - Organizations

#shakespalin, Ctd

Linguist Mark Liberman looks into the history of "refudiate" and finds some interesting stuff.

Mark Liberman - Comedy - Arts - Religion and Spirituality - References and Tools

The View From Your Window Contest: Winner #7

A reader writes:

Okay, now you guys are just being spiteful.

Another writes:

At this rate, next week we will see the view of an alley from a basement flat.

Another:

Okay - I'm gonna look foolish, since some specialist in the genus arecaceae will know just what palm trees those are and some ex-pat car enthusiast will ID the car based on the window shape (and then know in which country the preponderance of cars are white) and some devoted Dish reader will be reminded of the vacation they took...

Mel Gibson: A Bigot And A Fascist (And Darling Of The Christianist Right)

Hitch is slack-jawed at those who continue to downplay Gibson's long record of hatred:

And now, in the wake of a Niagara of cloacal abuse directed at the mother of his youngest
in which we were spared nothing by way of obscenity and menace
nothing by way of paranoid and sexualized racism, there have been
who diagnose Gibson's problem as a lack of anger management
combined perhaps with a touch of narcissistic personality disorder.

This is extraordinary. We live in a...

It's On Now

 

Today's update here.

United States - Web Design and Development - Republican - NBC - Meet the Press