No… Now President Obama wants to kill Sarah Palin’s Down Syndrome baby with his “death panel.” Says Sarah Palin: The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on […]
Eli Sanders
Eli Sanders is The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won this, but he also once crashed his bike into a parked car while on his way to a staff meeting, never mind this, so… His website, which probably hasn't been updated in a while, is www.elisanders.net.
Posted inFashion
Crocs Going Bankrupt?
Perhaps. And Ezra Klein’s reaction seems right on: Looking back, the fact that people bought 100 million pairs of the ugliest shoes ever made, and then began buying charms in order to add gaudiness to the monstrosity, should have been evidence that the amount of money sloshing through the economy had made us lose our […]
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Obama Silent on MJ!
What? No statement from the Commander in Chief on the passing of Michael Jackson?! Even when, as Michael Shear reminds, it took Obama no time at all a few weeks ago to “express his sadness to the people of Gabon on the sudden death of notorious dictator President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon.” […]
Posted inMedia
Cuts at the NYT
The cuts just keep on coming! From the NYT: Facing a steep drop in revenue, The New York Times Company plans to cut the pay of most employees by 5 percent for nine months, in return for 10 days’ leave, and will lay off 100 people and make other budget cuts, executives said on Thursday.
Posted inPolitics
Barack Obama Loves Your Three-Legged Puppy
Another reason for those sky-high approval ratings: Kinda hard to hate on a guy holding a disabled puppy with only three legs! Via Ben Smith.
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Fighting Until the Last Breath (Or, “Don’t Hate!”)
Illinois Governor Ron Blagojevich speaks: This video, from Blagojevich’s first post-arrest press conference, is pretty amazing. He quotes Kipling (“Don’t give way to hating…”), he sounds like Nixon in moments, and he’s every bit as feisty and petulant as you’d imagine. (But no curse words, dammit!)
Posted inTech
Snip, Snip… No More Internet
Bad news for our readers in Egypt: CAIRO, Egypt – Egypt’s communications ministry says Internet cables in the Mediterranean Sea have been cut, causing massive Internet outages. The ministry says three Internet cables running through the Mediterranean were cut Friday morning. Throughout the country the Internet is almost completely down or working sporadically. A reminder […]
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Capitalism vs. Capitalism
The best thing about the story, <a href="via Ben Smith, of the U.S. Mint vs. cable television’s Obama coins? The best thing is that it’s apparently totally legal to take a real U.S. silver dollar, coat it in plastic (or gold), add Obama’s likeness, and resell this modified currency to people who buy such things […]
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Lieberman Keeps His Chairmanship
Let the blog fury begin: WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Joe Lieberman will keep his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite hard feelings over his support for GOP nominee John McCain during the presidential campaign. The Connecticut independent will lose a minor panel post as punishment for criticizing Obama this fall. Lieberman’s colleagues in […]
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Obama Wins Indiana
It’s finally been called here, and probably elsewhere. Still waiting on Missouri and North Carolina. As the Electoral Colleges stands now: Obama 349, McCain 162. But Obama’s tally, if he takes both Missouri and North Carolina, could go up to 375 — which would beat Bill Clinton’s margin of victory in 1992.
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One Day Before: Taking the Nation’s Pulse
After all the emotional ups and downs it’s given our readers over the last few months, here is the final Gallup tracking poll, traditional-model edition (the new model produces exactly the same result). Other national polls are showing the same thing: FOX NEWS: Obama 50, McCain 43. MARIST COLLEGE: Obama 53, McCain 44. NBC/WSJ: Obama […]
Posted inMovies & TV
Déjà Vu
Oliver Stone, Pop Psychology, and George W. Bush
W.: Oliver Stone psychoanalyzes George W. Bush, bores audiences.