Shorter Jay: The next time I’m on the sidewalk outside a party and someone comes up and points a camera at me, the only question I’m answering is, “Who are you wearing?”

I’ve read the comments and some postings elsewhere about my appearance on that YearlyKos panel and an interview I did later for TPMtv. A couple of points. First, one commenter reads too much into a statement I made on the panel to the effect that “Time will always have conservative columnists”. I was asked about [...]

I hope this means I get to write them off now. (Thanks, James!)

Fascinating post over at Threat Level about a philosopher, Sandro Gaycken, trying to construct arguments against surveillance that are as tangible as those used to justify it: Many anti-surveillance arguments are based on vaguely emotional concerns, or appeals to abstract values, as opposed to the hard facts of suicide bombers or commuters killed on the [...]

That’s the title of a new book, written by my supremely talented colleagues Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy, about Billy Graham and his relationships with Presidents of both parties, going back to Dwight Eisenhower. It’s coming out this week, and we’ll be publishing excerpts in the dead-tree TIME that comes out on Friday. That same [...]

In the sense that his words are appearing here: Sadly, the video does not include the comments made by our Fearless Leader (Jay) on the same panel. Sorry I missed it. UPDATE: Sorry, the embedding code seems broken. So my small joke of a headline is another MSM lie. But you can watch the video [...]

• Just because you’re paranoid… New York will release “nearly 2,000 pages of raw intelligence reports and other documents detailing the Police Department’s covert surveillance of protest groups and individual activists before the Republican National Convention in 2004.” [NYT] • Romney says his “sons are showing support for our nation is helping me get elected.” [...]