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Socialist Patrol

November 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · AR, Arts and Entertainment, Politics

One particularly depressing thought that occurred to me last night:  there’s an episode of The Simpsons in which a bear is spotted in Springfield, causing the townspeople to go crazy and demand that Mayor Quimby do something about the town being “infested” by bears.  Quimby starts a massive “bear patrol,” with armed agents and helicopters [...]

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November 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · AR, Politics

Going into yesterday knowing that it wasn’t a a question of whether the results would be good or bad, but rather how bad, I had planned to write a post this morning titled “Silver Linings and Sour Grapes.”  But I wasn’t prepared for just how bad things would be last night, and decided to scuttle [...]

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Why to Vote (Democratic): Republicans Can’t Govern Edition

November 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · AR, Politics

James Fallows: When a party is willing to hamstring the country’s overall prospects, as “collateral damage” in its effort to weaken the other party, the results are bad for everybody. To choose one example, about which I have more to say in an upcoming magazine article: Everybody knows that “green tech” / “clean tech” businesses [...]

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Why to Vote (Democratic): Al Franken Edition

November 1st, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Politics

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Why to Vote (Democratic): The Other Side Edition

November 1st, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Politics

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Why to Vote (Democratic): Bill Maher Edition

November 1st, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Politics

“I know progressives are disillusioned, you know, you hate the Democrats.   Well, I hate my cell phone company, but I don’t replace it by rubbing dogshit on my teeth.” and “Now in case Democrats and independents don’t have enough motivation to get out to the polls, let me offer a little Halloween message of what [...]

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Pro Mudslinging

October 29th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Politics

We’ve been rather hard on Meg Whitman on this blog.  So in the interest of fairness,* I thought I’d second Paul Waldman’s defense of Whitman’s refusal to refrain from negative advertising. Negative advertising gets a bad rap in political campaigns, I think because it’s so often abused.  There are plenty of reasons to criticize specific [...]

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What She Said

October 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments · AR, Politics

When I first saw this ad, I thought it was one of the most effective campaign ads I’d ever seen.  Turns out, it’s not even the best ad by Jerry Brown using video of Meg Whitman to be released in the last two weeks.  That would be this ad: I would have loved to have [...]

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Meggy v. Jerry

September 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments · AR, AS, Immigration, Labor, Politics

The first-ever LTMF Liveblog event! Figures we decided to liveblog a political event that probably even most people in California couldn’t even be bothered to watch: the first governor’s debate between Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown. Wow, huh? In case you ever wished you were privy to the snarky political chats that regularly occur between [...]

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Pledge to Hope America Forgets Everything that Happened Before 2008

September 24th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Politics

On Wednesday, Republicans announced their “Pledge for America,” their policy agenda for the coming Congressional term.  As for the merits of the pledge, I doubt anyone could put it better than Paul Krugman.  As one would expect from today’s Republican Party, it’s full of deception and overblown apocalyptic rhetoric.  And, as the crack team at [...]

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