WAD CITY

Marc Ambinder - Reader E-Mails: Dayton And McCain's Pro-Choice Ruse?

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:53:07 -0500

Marc Ambinder - Reader E-Mails: Dayton And McCain's Pro-Choice Ruse?: I’ll give you one guess who “Reader MB” is. Thankfully, the nutjobbiest of my comments were removed!

gymnastics subjective scoring confounds. can’t wait to return to objectively scored...

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:15:41 -0500

gymnastics subjective scoring confounds. can’t wait to return to objectively scored competitions, like top chef & fellating with the stars.

Tell me about it! (PHD Comics: Vicious Cycle)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:51:00 -0500

Tell me about it! (PHD Comics: Vicious Cycle)

NY Times: Response to 9/11 Offers Outline of McCain Doctrine

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:13:04 -0500

NY Times: Response to 9/11 Offers Outline of McCain Doctrine:

Within hours, Mr. McCain, the Vietnam War hero and famed straight talker of the 2000 Republican primary, had taken on a new role: the leading advocate of taking the American retaliation against Al Qaeda far beyond Afghanistan. In a marathon of television and radio appearances, Mr. McCain recited a short list of other countries said to support terrorism, invariably including Iraq, Iran and Syria.

“There is a system out there or network, and that network is going to have to be attacked,” Mr. McCain said the next morning on ABC News. “It isn’t just Afghanistan,” he added, on MSNBC. “I don’t think if you got bin Laden tomorrow that the threat has disappeared,” he said on CBS, pointing toward other countries in the Middle East.

Within a month he made clear his priority. “Very obviously Iraq is the first country,” he declared on CNN. By Jan. 2, Mr. McCain was on the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt in the Arabian Sea, yelling to a crowd of sailors and airmen: “Next up, Baghdad!”

The hottest new dance club in town… original is here (via...

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:15:00 -0500

The hottest new dance club in town… original is here (via craplinks & idolator)

Hold Steady's "Stay Positive" for $2

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:25:33 -0500

Hold Steady's "Stay Positive" for $2: The Daily Deal for 8/15 at the Amazon MP3 Store (via Amazon MP3 twitter feed)

Tapes N Tapes are laying it all out for a tiny crowd, half of whom would rather be at Dress Barn....

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:30:00 -0500

Tapes N Tapes are laying it all out for a tiny crowd, half of whom would rather be at Dress Barn. Fuckin’ Quad Cities!

OMG this band is like someone took the worst Red Hot Chili Peppers song ever recorded and raped it...

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:15:00 -0500

OMG this band is like someone took the worst Red Hot Chili Peppers song ever recorded and raped it with a broom handle.

Local opener for Tapes N’ Tapes sounds like B-52s covering Prince.

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:10:00 -0500

Local opener for Tapes N’ Tapes sounds like B-52s covering Prince.

Me: “We had a bat in the house.” Neighbor: “If you see one, it means you probably...

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:10:00 -0500

Me: “We had a bat in the house.” Neighbor: “If you see one, it means you probably have a colony of 30-40 in your walls.” Me: Gulp.

All the Russian & Georgian gold medals are in wrestling & judo. Suddenly, all this business...

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:41:00 -0500

All the Russian & Georgian gold medals are in wrestling & judo. Suddenly, all this business about South Ossetia seems a little homoerotic.

WSJ: Now Diving: Sir Isaac Newton Quick little how-does-it-work...

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:06:28 -0500

WSJ: Now Diving: Sir Isaac Newton

Quick little how-does-it-work article on the divecam, along with a nifty animated diagram in a popup window.

Seumas Milne: This is a tale of US expansion not Russian aggression

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:53:52 -0500

Seumas Milne: This is a tale of US expansion not Russian aggression: This is certainly not the perspective we’ve been getting from our American news outlets, now is it?

"The Greek tragedy aspect of this election could turn out to be, George Bush defeats John McCain..."

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:49:22 -0500

“The Greek tragedy aspect of this election could turn out to be, George Bush defeats John McCain twice.”

- Former McCain strategist John Weaver

Marc Ambinder - Clinton's Name Likely To Be Placed In Nomination; Agreement Near With Obama Campaign

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:41:29 -0500

Marc Ambinder - Clinton's Name Likely To Be Placed In Nomination; Agreement Near With Obama Campaign: So Ambinder essentially says that reports of strife are exaggerated. In short, this little piece presents a peachy picture of the behind-the-scenes conversations between Obama and Clinton folks. The Dowd op-ed that had me seething yesterday suggests the polar opposite, and it’s hard to know what to believe. Ambinder’s description squares with what I expect of the Obama camp, while Dowd’s squares with my worst fears about the Clintons. But knowing the press is itching for drama, and not being the biggest fan of Dowd, I’d put my money on Ambinder. So everythings hunky dory, yes, maybe, please?

2 local hookers were picked up pulling tricks 85 miles away. This seems like an unecessarily long...

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:52:00 -0500

2 local hookers were picked up pulling tricks 85 miles away. This seems like an unecessarily long commute.

Japan’s gymnasts have totally collapsed in the men’s all around use of hair gel.

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:30:00 -0500

Japan’s gymnasts have totally collapsed in the men’s all around use of hair gel.

uh, no wonder nobody wanted to get too close to her: http://is.gd/1qqP

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:14:41 -0500

uh, no wonder nobody wanted to get too close to her: http://is.gd/1qqP

A barrel of light sweet crude oil for every legal American...

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:58:49 -0500

A barrel of light sweet crude oil for every legal American family

Discovered sneaking through sorority despite invisibility cloak: apparently it doesn’t conceal...

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:53:17 -0500

Discovered sneaking through sorority despite invisibility cloak: apparently it doesn’t conceal farts, pit-stink, or coffee-breath.