Posts tagged news

LA Times: Nonprofit Newsroom Wins Pulitzer Prize

How excruciating it must’ve been for the Times staffer to type each letter, space and punctuation mark in this piece, let alone concentrate above the din of their gnashing teeth and the other budget-cut-shoes dropping.

Could ‘hiking the Appalachian Trail’ become a new metaphor in politics?
Josh Marshall’s Talking Points Memo DEEP THOUGHT on South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s puzzling “disappearance”

Daily Telegraph (UK): Japanese Company Does Thriving Trade in 'Fake Friends'


There are seat-fillers, and then there are life-fillers. (via)

New Rule: If you’re a cartoonist and have to put a button on Obama that says “Obama”, you have to get another job.
Bill Maher, from Real Time With Bill Maher
5 Presidents (Photo: AP)Say what you will about their individual accomplishments (or lack of, or anticipated), it’s a great photo op… or a postcard.

5 Presidents (Photo: AP)

Say what you will about their individual accomplishments (or lack of, or anticipated), it’s a great photo op… or a postcard.

2008 Best Magazine Cover Nominees

2008 Best Magazine Cover Nominees (Sample of 3)
A sampling of the American Magazine Editors Group noms, including (l to r): Cover of the Year, Best Fashion Cover, Best Concept Cover. (via)

Sub-link to the Top 40 Covers of the Last 40 Years (published in 2005) is worth a look. How many do you remember?

Where's Keef?

Olbermann reassigned to cover Hurricane Gustav on Monday. How tight will the reins be Tuesday-Thursday? All is apparently not fair or balanced in love money and war politics.
msrnc: the place for (the right) politics

Mysterious 'Doughy" Blob Clogs Maine Sewer

So now we know what happened to all the stories Stephen King threw out.

Electicker 2008

One-stop election news, opinion and whatever aggregator site for Left, Right and Center. (via Metafilter)

Fareed Zakaria To Host New CNN Program

International editor at Newsweek will headline what’s being billed as a ‘weekly global get together’ on the cable network.

One smart guy. He makes it easy for dopes like me to wrap my head around this crazy, mixed-up world and our country’s position in it (if our country still has one).