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The Tea Party and the GOP: Change You Already Believed In
Thank you for inviting me to speak to you. I’ll just add a little to the introduction by saying that I’ve been covering the Republican Party and the conservative and libertarian movements ...
The Movies of 2010
At the end of every year I list the movies I've seen in some sort of ordinal ranking. Here's an early start: What am I missing? 21. Shutter Island 20. The Human Centipede 19. Daybreakers 18. ...
A Scott Pilgrim Adaptogram
When I obsess over a movie I do things like look at the source material and see how it differs from the adaptation. So if you grokked "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" ...
“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”
I adored this movie. I adored in the way the Younger Dave used to hoard VHS cassettes of anime and Kevin Smith and Whit Stillman movies, and watch them over and over ...
March/April
Hmm. So the June 25 Daily Caller article about me, by Jonathan Strong, included this excerpt of an old JournoList e-mail: In April, Weigel wrote that the problem with the mainstream media ...
NAACP: We were snookered by Fox News
Here's NAACP President Ben Jealous's statement on the group's investigation of a tape showing former USDA official Shirley Sherrod talking about mistreating a white farmer 24 years ago -- a tape ...
“Eating the Dinosaur”
I bought Chuck Klosterman's latest essay collection the second it came out; only over the last weekend did I pick it up and read it. I have read less depressing books. Chapter ...
Republicans knock Jindal on BP transparency
I'll be on Countdown later discussing local criticism of Gov. Bobby Jindal's handling of the oil spill. One line of that criticism -- anger that Jindal vetoed legislation that would have opened ...