My first love was music. My primary literary influences for the first decade of my writing life were Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus (who I’ve come to be irritated by but whatevs), and Richard Hell. I wish it showed. Anyway, it was a delicious little thrill to read today about Mac McCaughan (founder/lead singer for Superchunk [...]
An especially brief ‘Cast today; you’ll understand when you see my hair. The ad I discuss here:
It’s long been my belief that the GOP hole card in 2008 is going to be a rancid furriner-bashing anti-illegal-immigrant smear campaign. Make no mistake, whatever lipstick they put on this pig, the bottom line is the same old know-nothing nativism that has been a minor American stain since the Protestants began to get worried [...]
This is a setback for the Dems, as he was their best prospect to win the Nebraska Senate seat being vacated by Chuck Hagel. UPDATE: Commenter Sy asks: WHO was pushing for Kerrey to run? Among others, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Chuck Schumer, who was putting on pretty much of a full-court press. Nebraska [...]
Basic rule of Congress-watching: If they’ve passed something, it’s either meaningless, stupidly symbolic or crass porkification. Today’s edition.
There they go again. An AP story that ran on A10 of the Washington Post this morning quotes two unnamed sources as saying the White House “significantly edited” the testimony of Centers for Disease Control Director Julie Gerberding to delete references to the effects of climate change on the spread of disease: A CDC official [...]
