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Wednesday, Oct 06, 2004
matthews metier
in those fevered few moments at the end of the vp debate it was incumbent upon me to select a victor and a vanquished. so long as truth was not a determining factor, i called it a draw. i thought cheneys non responses were his biggest detriment. edwards likes to be expansive and work a room so i thought the time constraints cut into his strengths.
just saw chris matthews on msnbc say he was sticking by his post debate spin, which was a cheney landslide. he said this with an embarrassed look on his face as he now knows his panel does not represent the conventional wisdom. that his subsequent analysis did not meet with his initial findings is nothing unusual for chris, he lives in a state of dissonance between what he believes and what he mau maus daily.
the truly sad moment came when matthews lauded nbc for actually questioning the veracity of cheneys statements. it was like a revelation to him. they could actually see if what was said was true. matthews obviously has come down with some sort of disease if he thinks that people would like to hear the truth. wed much prefer his incisive debate analysis. "Cheney didnt scowl. Hes the clear winner!"
Monday, Oct 04, 2004
business end
"What Susan Milligan and her Globe researchers do in this report that is so helpful is actually collate data on procedures like closed rules, floor debate time, and conference committee riders and offer the appropriate comparisons to congressional practice in the past. Their findings should finally put to rest the claim that Democrats were just as ruthless when they were in charge and are now just whining out of sour grapes. What's going on now really is unprecedented (or it's at least without precedent since the days of "Czar Joe" Cannon, Speaker of the House in the early 1900s)."
Friday, Oct 01, 2004
billionairings
george soros is blogging. how long before hes infusing money into the blogosphere?
Wednesday, Sep 29, 2004
exposed position
montreal expos to relocate to washington, dc.
Tuesday, Sep 28, 2004
guarding the line
quite a week for mr moulitsas. first fluff then kerfuffle, now a byline in the guardian. the road to flame wars and fortune hunters is paved with blogs.
sail or moon
well, my friend who once claimed he was the worlds second best driver has driven his family off a cliff, figuratively speaking. actually it was his soon to be ex-wife that cut the brakeline. had he been buckled in im sure everything would be fine, but he had to go think his marriage was indestructable and got reckless. sorry mostly for the kids, theyre the ones that will suffer the worst of the whiplash. those headrests dont give much support.
but theres a happy ending to this brief tale, at least for me. in exchange for the wife and two kids, my friend has put a down payment on a 46' sailboat to be moored in saint johns. so it wont be long now before i have harrowing tales of the coast guard fishing us out of the drink (im so nautical) somewhere between virgin gorda and dominica. my timbers are already ashiver.
Monday, Sep 27, 2004
one small leap for blogkind
kos and mydd launch blogpac.
mark your star charts
finally some important news - conan to succeed leno in 2009.
piece out
naomi klein piece about the politicization of coalition provisional authority.
whine and deign
billmon frets about the commercialization of blogs on the la times op-ed page. what a short strange trip its been.