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10
Sep

Hypocrites, damned hypocrites

Via Marc Cooper — this is a book by John McCain’s former press secretary. No-spin era. Yep.

10
Sep

Savaging Palin

Dan Savage isn’t just a sex advice columnist, he’s one of America’s sharpest minds on sexual politics. His take on Palin? Away he goes: […] As the adoptive parent of a child born to a pair of unwed teenagers, I’m certainly not in favor of abortion in all circumstances. But I believe that it’s a choice teenagers should be able

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10
Sep

Jazz for Obama

October 1 at 92nd Street Y. Here for details!

10
Sep

McCain’s shamelessness

The Republican crybaby brigade is claiming Barack Obama meant the phrase “lipstick on a pig” as an attack on Sarah Palin, when he clearly didn’t. Here’s video of McCain using the same exact phrase in May.

8
Sep

Cohen on Palin

There’s been much to admire in Nick Cohen’s savaging of the George Galloway-John Pilger wing of the left in Britain. But to me, the point of all this, and the reason I launched this blog almost exactly three years ago, was to shore up liberalism and social-democratic politics against attacks from the know-nothing left and the know-nothing right. Cohen has

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6
Sep

Surge PS

Steve Coll of The New Yorker describes the situation in post-surge Iraq as “patchwork calm,” and here’s one feature of said calm: “Violent deaths of Iraqi civilians, while difficult to measure, have also dropped steeply, although the figure remains high: about five hundred per month, at a conservative estimate.” Five hundred violent deaths per month, and this is what the

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6
Sep

Rage Against … the Machine, Obama, whatever

David Carr reports on Rage Against the Machine’s protests at both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. According to Rage and its delusional followers, there is no difference between Obama and McCain. I suppose they’re waiting around for the Democratic candidate to champion Che and Mumia and the writing of crackpots like William Blum, as Rage’s website does. Way to

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6
Sep

The week on disc (26)

In case you missed the last one… Sumi Tonooka Trio, Long Ago Today (Arc) Donny McCaslin, Recommended Tools (Greenleaf) Ted Nash, The Mancini Project (Palmetto) Pandelis Karayorgis, Betwixt (Hatology) Blink., The Epidemic of Ideas (Thirsty Ear) Mark Weinstein, Straight No Chaser (Jazzheads)