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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" ...
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 ...
“Tea Bag Them”
In some ways, the Sunday publication of an old photo of me (April 2009) at a friend's Easter egg party was heartening -- the moment I realized the frantic campaign to discredit ...
MSNBC
I signed up as an MSNBC contributor yesterday, which means I'm on call for a couple of segments a week -- just as I was at the Washington Post -- and ...