Sarah Palin used to be entertaining.
I mean, she was the perfectly-cast Hollywood sideshow foil that made last year’s election so incredibly riveting. She was so good at being the election’s comic relief that watching Tina Fey imitate her was almost disappointing. It was impossible to play a Folksy Right Wing Nutjob character and get more [...]
There are plenty of arguments one could make both for and against government offering a bailout to newspapers.
And the arguments, at least in America, would probably fall on deaf ears, as the White House seems to have already made up its mind:
With the Boston Globe just the latest big-city newspaper teetering on the edge of [...]
Aside from (sigh) Arkansas, Americans did some pretty decent shit on prop votes last night.
“Tonight’s results represent a sea change,” said Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, which backed the Massachusetts and Michigan ballot proposals. “Voters have spectacularly rejected eight years of the most intense government war on marijuana since the days [...]
Like so many other Canadians, and citizens in countries around the world, I offer my profound thanks to the American electorate for making the right decision. After the past eight years, a lot of us doubted you could arise from what seemed a collective stupor in time to act to preserve the ideals of the [...]
There’s surely going to be a final act in this damned play, so let’s get on with it already.
I understand too much about the nasty rules of life’s overarching narrative to believe that the third presidential debate is over, Barack Obama has a large enough lead to coast home and that Senator John McCain — [...]
You can see it in their eyes.
It’s the best part about watching sports. Or watching politics. Sometimes — and it is rare enough that it should be treasured — a person who makes their living in the public eye goes to a place where they are simply beyond the competition. Other people do it, too [...]