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  • ‘Whites are People Too’: Why Some White People are Stating the Obvious

    Swain needs to explain that last paragraph. Exactly how has the President’s policies “heightened” existing racial turmoil? Which policies? Cash for Clunkers? Also, editors need to explain how that last paragraph got by them. You present an idea, you must support it. The only thing Swain is right about is that “these [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2009, 4:39pm EDT
    by Mark

  • Gandalf’s New Edict

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    During an online discussion in which the subject refers to infidelity and celebrity, the longer the discussion goes on, the probability that the name “Bill Clinton” will be invoked approaches one. Posted in Politics, Pop Culture [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2009, 11:16am EDT
    by Mark

  • USA 2 Brasil 3 : afterthoughts

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    The US side was impressive in just about all points of the game in the first 45 minutes. The Brasil side was frustrated by their inability to penetrate down the center and take players on 1 v 1, evidenced by a lot of shots from 25 ft out or more. [...]
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    Posted: June 28, 2009, 3:53pm EDT
    by Mark

  • What Don’t Michael Jackson and OJ Simpson Have in Common

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    Kleinheider asks us these questions: Now, of course, I understand the concept of innocent until proven guilty. I do. But I thought that we all had come to the conclusion that Jacko was about as innocent of child molestation as O.J. was of killing Nicole. Was I wrong? Because if O.J. dies and [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2009, 2:53pm EDT
    by Mark

  • Childhood’s End

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    I was no more than four years old the first time I saw Michael Jackson, which would make him around, oh, 12 or 13 at the time. It was my first concert, The Commodores and The Jacksons, and there were probably never more afros in one place than there were [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2009, 7:19pm EDT
    by Mark

  • Hair Apparently

    One question I get asked a lot by randoms is “how long have you been growing your hair (dreads, locs, etc)?” Today I noticed that down near the end of one of my locs there is a rubber band, stuck there, twisted and gnarled. I’ve cut my hair several times [...]
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    Posted: April 08, 2009, 4:01pm EDT
    by Mark

  • UNC Tar Heels Champions Again. Now On to 2011

    The Tar Heels won it all, Hansbrough's destiny was fulfilled. Now, on to next season. [...]
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    Posted: April 07, 2009, 12:27pm EDT
    by Mark

  • GAME TIME: Tar Heels By Four

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    That’s my call, I’m making it public. Will President Obama be proven correct? (as well as me and the millions of others who picked this talent packed team as pre-season #1 lol)?Too nervous (and well busy) to say anything else. We’ll talk after. Posted in Sports, Tarheel Basketball Tagged: Barack Obama, [...]
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    Posted: April 06, 2009, 5:13pm EDT
    by Mark

  • UNC over LSU: The Return of Ty Lawson

    I’ve developed a bad habit this NCAA season; I’m not making room in my schedule to watch games. Perhaps its a sign of my advanced age and jammed up schedule but I’ve watched less Tar Heel hoops than ever this year. I missed three quarters of today’s LSU game, all [...]
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    Posted: March 21, 2009, 7:20pm EDT
    by Mark

  • Battlestar Galactica Series Finale: The Eulogy

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    “Daybreak pt 2″ And that’s that. Five years of sifting through false mythology and conflicting prophecies and in the end, we find out this was the lost episode of “Touched By An Angel.” Jeez. It was no surprise to me that the series finale would strike me as much of the show [...]
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    Posted: March 21, 2009, 4:59am EDT
    by Mark

  • Battlestar Galactica 4 X 19: Flashback Flashdance

    “Daybreak Pt. 1″ I don’t really know how to sum up the beginning of the BSG finale than with a comment in the latest BSG thread over at the AV Club. To paraphrase: it’s an info-dump with explosions! The explosions, mostly from blaster fire but some probably from STARTLING REVELATIONS, will [...]
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    Posted: March 14, 2009, 2:51am EDT
    by Mark

  • Battlestar Galactica season 4 ep 18: Okay, Perhaps Two Winged Angels?

    “Islanded in a Stream of Stars” Maybe I’ve tapped into the BSG neural net like Sam had this week, because last week’s BSG recap title looks pretty prescient as Baltar spent a lot of time talking about angels this week. The dire condition of the Galactica and the importance of Hera [...]
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    Posted: March 07, 2009, 6:24am EST
    by Mark

  • Battlestar Galactica ep 4 17: One Winged Angels

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    “Someone to Watch Over Me” (thought I had posted this on Friday night but I guess it was stuck in drafts) I’ve been guessing that Starbuck was a hybrid. I just had the wrong father. But without knowing that the writers would cook up a lost cylon, how could I have been [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2009, 12:38pm EST
    by Mark

  • Maryland over UNC

    Wow, Vasquez had a great game, all you can say. We blew a 16 point lead, lost focus on defense. The story was to be the return of Tyler Zeller however the story was the return to c-ya defense. Hubert Davis said after the Duke game, if Carolina plays that [...]
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    Posted: February 21, 2009, 5:09pm EST
    by Mark

  • Battlestar Galactica Ep 4 16: Why Are Mommy and Daddy Fighting?

    “Deadlock” This week’s run slowed the pace to allow for an acting exercise. Teetering on the edge of melodrama (and ultimately falling in), Ellen Tigh returned to the Galactica and her eons long love to find he’s going to be a papa with Caprica Six. Meanwhile, Tyrol has introduced Cylon technology [...]
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    Posted: February 21, 2009, 4:00pm EST
    by Mark

  • Battlestar Galactica ep 4 15: I’m Only Human

    “No Exit” (this is more recap than review, btw) At least it’s getting a little more interesting now. This was basically another set up episode, in which though a couple of questions about the convoluted origins of the Cylons were explained, a little. Sam took one to the dome last week and now [...]
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    Posted: February 14, 2009, 11:18am EST
    by Mark

  • UNC Torches Duke with 101 Points.

    For about 30 minutes tonight, North Carolina looked like the best team in the nation. For the other 15 they looked like D-1A scrubs. Not having been on one of the school’s many championship sports teams I don’t really know what it’s like to have a substantial lead and lose [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2009, 1:13am EST
    by Mark

  • Tennessee Republicans Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory

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    Jah bless their little stone encrusted hearts, the Tennessee Republicans. Given the choice of having a Republican leader of the General Assembly or getting a little payback on a wayward soldier (Speaker of the House Kent Williams) they chose to push a stick in old Kenny’s eye and kick him [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2009, 12:37am EST
    by Mark

  • Grammy Thoughts (Besides “Yawn.”)

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    Were there any surprises among any of the winners? I don’t recall a single one. I suppose some will think Adele beating the Jonas Brothers was a surprise . . . Interesting thing about Adele’s win for best new artist; the talented young singer who should have been accepting that award [...]
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    Posted: February 09, 2009, 12:50am EST
    by Mark

  • Mutiny on the Bow: Will the Progressives Actually Take Over the Tennessee Democratic Party?

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    Some mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore type exuberance is part of the brute force shown by what the kids like to call the Netroots. It helped Obama raise about seventy gazillion dollars during the Democratic primary. It sent Joe Lieberman into the waiting arms of the [...]
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    Posted: February 08, 2009, 6:56am EST
    by Mark

  • Battlestar Galactica ep 4 14: OMG! You Killed the Quorum! You Bastard!

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    “ Generally I despise the way politics are presented in speculative fiction, at least on the big and small screens. They are usually gutless – no more so than other forms of fiction – unwilling to take a side on issues, and “extremists,” like BSG’s Zarek, are presented as ultimately self-interested [...]
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    Posted: February 08, 2009, 6:19am EST
    by Mark

  • Manufactured Dissent

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    I must say I was enjoying reading about/watching my predictions come to light regarding the infighting among Republicans. They did a good job, as usual, of keeping a good public face and appeared as if they were about to marshal in the herd and have them all chewing the same [...]
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    Posted: February 03, 2009, 2:28am EST
    by Mark

  • This Week in Race (ism): Michael Steele, Montgomery Bell Academy and the Nashville Scene

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    Okay, perhaps much to your surprise, Obama’s win did not signal an end to racism as we know it, or even an end to people talking about race and ethnicity. What with Nashville embroiled somewhat interested in a battle over legislation that sought to make the city less hospitable to [...]
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    Posted: January 31, 2009, 7:54am EST
    by Mark

  • Battlestar Galactica: Episode 4 13: Blastin’ Fools

    And so the mutiny against the fleet has begun, as Gaeta shows how much weight he carries by single handedly making it possible, providing an escape from jail for Zarek, getting weapons to the mutineers to dismantling the ship’s communication systems. This episode was mostly action and leaves little to [...]
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    Posted: January 31, 2009, 6:29am EST
    by Mark

  • Battlestar Galactica Ep. 4 12: Head Em Up, Move Em Out

    “Disquiet of My Soul” After the season opening despair and angst, BSG set about setting up conflicts and rectifying a wrong from last season’s plot twists. After Adama loaded up the wagons and pointed his fleet towards a star, the crew settled down to personal matters, what with Roslin deciding to [...]
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    Posted: January 25, 2009, 1:44am EST
    by Mark

  • Nashville! Otsukaresamadeshita!

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    おつかれさまでした　ナスヴィル！ I wanted to be able to write-in “Aw Hell Naw” but it wasn’t possible, so now say it with me in your best Will Smith imitation. Conventional political wisdom foretold the victory, though. As much as journalists and bloggers were on about English Only, most people did not really care, and [...]
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    Posted: January 23, 2009, 1:42am EST
    by Mark

  • Whose House? Our House!

    Found at Dub Dot Dash Posted in Music, National, Obama, Politics, rap   Tagged: Barack Obama, fashion, hip hop, inauguration, Run D.M.C., t-shirt    [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2009, 3:21pm EST
    by Mark

  • On the Cowboy Bebop Live Action Movie (and Akira, while we’re on about it)

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    Why do fans of comics and animation feel a need to see live action versions of animated films, tv series and comic books? [...]
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    Posted: January 17, 2009, 4:04pm EST
    by Mark

  • Wes Freeman, I Take it, Will Not Be Taking MLK Day Off

    This person, whom I tend to doubt has any real power, said in the comments section of a post I made about the post-election state of the national GOP that he would not be giving any “blacks” an “even break.” He will never even hire another Black, because of their [...]
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    Posted: January 17, 2009, 2:44pm EST
    by Mark

  • Battlestar Galactica - Season 4 Ep 11: I’m a Cylon, You’re a Cylon, too!

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    “Sometimes a Great Notion” After the “Earth” the rag tag fleet discovered turned out to be an Earth formerly populated by Cylons, the whole revelation of the final Cylon seemed irrelevant. That revelation was, like most of the scenes in the opening bell of the final season of the show, another [...]
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    Posted: January 17, 2009, 4:12am EST
    by Mark

  • Y’all Stupid

    Wanna-be (RNC chair) Michael Steele has set his sights on the Volunteer state, offering up a few coins to the TN Republican Party from GOPAC, paying lip service to the anger and resentment still floating around amongst TN republicans over Kent Williams power grab. These locals apparently do not understand [...]
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    Posted: January 16, 2009, 1:51pm EST
    by Mark

  • Republicans Got Served

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    Don’t hate the playa, hate the game, is a now clichéd missive towards losers of any stripe. That Republicans are wetting their Huggies over the power move run on them by former Speaker Jim Nafieh makes me think the GOP House members should have watched more 90’s hood movies, then [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2009, 3:38am EST
    by Mark

  • Eric Crafton: Spotted!

    I had my head down listening to Little Dork chattering on as we entered the Bellevue YMCA last night. As we entered I noticed a rather non-descript gentleman meandering through the glass double doors, in plain grey sweats, shoulders hunched and chin tucked — either in self defense from the [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2009, 2:12am EST
    by Mark

  • UNC loses to Wake Forrest. Not All That Surprising

    The ACC is a tough conference and Wake has developed a competitive athletic program over the years since they were an ACC dormat. I didn’t know how good they were this year but I knew they had a pro caliber back court. The Tar Heels losses can be attributed to their [...]
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    Posted: January 11, 2009, 10:01pm EST
    by Mark

  • Moving on. . .

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    Nothing new here but some pictures on my flickr feed, so pls check em. Last month was not a great one in sports for the sides I support so Titans fans, I feel your pain tonight. Your boys were out-defended tonight. Btw, how did Finnegan make the Pro Bowl anyway? [...]
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    Posted: January 10, 2009, 8:17pm EST
    by Mark

  • Crafton-San

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    Eric Crafton, Mr. English Only, doesn’t even have to use the old “my best friends are foreigners” routine to defend himself against accusations of being racist. He married one. At the time they married, he was the foreigner though, when he married his wife in Japan. I don’t think I’ve [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2008, 8:42am EST
    by Mark

  • Black Birds Singing in the Dead of Night

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    I tend to think stories about how the TN Republican Party is getting really good at running code worded, racist campaigns are old. I’m not terribly interested in Hobbs these days though I am surprised at how good he is at getting people to notice him, and thus making a [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2008, 6:56am EST
    by Mark

  • Tar Heels win Maui

    Well, Hansbrough has answered all questions about his ability to play this season and how he will fare in the draft as well. He’s clearly added dimensions to his game, shown in the drubbing of Notre Dame in the Maui Invitational. He stepped out and hit a three, was more [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2008, 5:51am EST
    by Mark

  • Tyler Zeller Injury Report

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    The Raleigh News and Observer’s ACC Now blog quotes Luke Zeller, Tyler’s brother who plays ball at Notre Dame as saying that his younger brother has broken his wrist in two places and will need screws. No word on how long he will be out, but he will miss the [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2008, 4:33pm EST
    by Mark

  • Relax, Howard

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    Howard Kurtz, WaPo appointed media watchdog falls in line with the contrarian point of view over Barack Obama’s win. He whines: Are the media capable of merchandizing the moment, packaging a president-elect for profit? Yes, they are. What’s troubling here goes beyond the clanging of cash registers. Media outlets have always tried [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2008, 9:42am EST
    by Mark

  • Tar Heel Sports Big Saturday

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    This weekend was one of the biggest in UNC sports since last Spring’s NCAA basketball championship. The football team had a big game against Maryland which would likely seal their spot in the ACC championship game, and the basketball team played their season opener against Penn minus the Player of [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2008, 7:08pm EST
    by Mark

  • Little Dragon Tours the US

    My favorite new band of 2007, Little Dragon, is on a short US jaunt. I want to commend them to my East and West Coast readers (all three of you). If you go, take pictures, get me a t-shirt (dates emboldened for friends) 20 Nov: Beauty Bar - San Diego, California 21 [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2008, 4:03am EST
    by Mark

  • Obama is Smart to Keep the Traitor

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    With Harry Reid ready to give Joe Lieberman the boot and take away his Homeland Security chairmanship, President-elect Obama sends signals that maybe it’s okay if Joe sticks around awhile. Lieberman, who stood with a stupid grin on his face behind McCain at campaign events and attacked Obama in the [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2008, 1:54am EST
    by Mark

  • The Republican Party’s National Death Rattle

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    Foresight was never a strength of the hard right, especially those of the chat show class. Apparently, neither is hindsight. Phil Valentine, Mona Charen and others are spreading the idea that “racial guilt” led to President-elect Obama’s win. Racial guilt, if you can’t sort it out, would be White folks [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2008, 1:36am EST
    by Mark

  • In Defense of — Somewhat — The TN Democratic Party

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    There’s been some back and forth between Gray Sasser, Chair of the TN Democratic Party and some area bloggers regarding his comments about the recent lackluster results in local House and Senate elections. Follow these. Goldln Sean Aunt B Newscoma It isn’t exactly the job of the chair of the party to oversee all races [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2008, 4:16am EST
    by Mark

  • Palin Heard the Rain Down in Africa

    I am going to give Palin the benefit of doubt as to whether she knew Africa was a continent and not a country. I have heard more people than I care talk about Africa as if it were a country though surely they knew it is actually a continent. It [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2008, 2:48am EST
    by Mark

  • There Are No Words . . . Well, A Few

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    We spend the latter half of the afternoon making GOTV calls to New Mexico and Virginia at Obama HQ in Nashville, with a quick sprint out to Napier Park to do some “visibility.” Even though intellectually I thought Obama had the election in the bag there was a sense of [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2008, 12:27am EST
    by Mark

  • Sarah Palin’s Foreign Policy Experience with French and Canadians

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    A comedy team out of Canada, the Masked Avengers, played a pretty funny prank on poor lil Guv’nah Palin over the weekend. They called her, pretending to be French P.M. Nicolas Sarkozy. 1) How did this call get through her staff? No verification? No one looked at caller ID? 2) The first [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2008, 3:27am EST
    by Mark

  • The Bitter Pill

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    Defeat goes down hard. Yet, this year for some reason, some on the Right are taking the impending Obama victory and resulting deconstruction of the Republican party particularly hard. Many have seen the wisdom early and defected. Some, vainly, continue to toss out whatever bizarre little conundrums they can dig out of [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2008, 6:43am EDT
    by Mark

  • heh?

    This head scratcher from my old Con Law prof: The most important function of a vice president is to serve as a spare president. Using the spare president in the ordinary course of business is as unwise as driving on one’s spare tire. Spares should be kept pristine, for when they [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2008, 7:12am EDT
    by Mark

  • My Electoral Map: Obama Wins

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    On the radio, I predicted around 300 EV for Obama. I must revise this now. I’m moving into the Obama landslide territory. I was thinking Obama might lose Nevada and possibly Florida, however I’m giving those to Obama now, along with Colorado and North Dakota. [for some reason my map [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2008, 5:40am EDT
    by Mark

  • Young Tennessee Not Getting Out

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    Last night on our radio show FREESTYLES (WFSK) one of our guests was a representative of the Obama campaign from the Nashville office. She told us that their internal numbers showed young voters (we could only assume she meant college age) were not getting out to vote early. While not [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2008, 11:07am EDT
    by Mark

  • Kingpin Nazi Scheme or, You’re Scared of Me? I’m Scared of You!

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    You may be wondering why I hadn’t written about the roving band of Nazis out to kill earlier. Well, I was sitting on the couch, appreciative for once, of living in neighborhood so White that the nutjobs would never think to look for me here. Then again, for all I [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2008, 7:19am EDT
    by Mark

  • Hockey Mom/Nutjob 2012!!

    Abe Greenwald thinks the wave of the Conservative future lies in the hands of two losers, and that the Right should look forward to a ticket of Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann in 2012. We will gloss over the fact that Greenwald certainly believes that McCain/Palin will lose this year and [...]
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    Posted: October 25, 2008, 7:07am EDT
    by Mark

  • Republicans Allege Vote Fraud in Nashville

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    Seems that your good pal Phil Valentine and Lynn Greer, a Republican member of the Davidson Co. Elections Committee, are claiming that “someone” was bringing in van loads of “non-English speaking Mexicans” to vote at an unnamed early voting location in Nashville. Moreover, they were escorted by a translator who [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2008, 12:50am EDT
    by Mark

  • I Would Like to Place My Name in Contention for the Republican Vice Presidential Nominee

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    Cuz, dude, I wouldn’t mind a few new tailor made suits. And some new Ken Coles. And for that athletic photo-op, a few jerseys (a Staubach throwback would be nice) and a pair of Air Circuit II trainers. Oh, and a personal stylist for the locs. Y’all can keep the [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2008, 5:44am EDT
    by Mark

  • Oh Noes! Actual Fraud! Republican Arrested on Suspicion of Voter Registration Fraud!

    Malkin, Limbaugh, Valentine, Hannity all experience spontaneous combustion simultaneously. Marc Jacoby, owner of Young Political Majors (which sounds like the name of an early 90’s conscious rap crew) was arrested on suspicion of voter registration fraud. His own error was to register himself at an address where he no longer lived [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2008, 2:15pm EDT
    by Mark

  • Don’t Look at Tennessee

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    Many are trying to make predictions on how the Presidential elections will turn out by making comparisons to Harold Ford Jr’s unsuccessful bid to win a Senate seat in 2006. I think it’s a bad comparison. Schaffner at pollster.com takes a look at some exit polling data on “late deciders” [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2008, 9:00am EDT
    by Mark

  • I’m a Sore Loser

    Anyone who went to UVa, I hope you get a stick in your eye. Especially you, Tiki Barber. I didn’t want to jinx the Carolina football team by talking about how well they are playing with an overconfident back-up QB and the loss of the likely player of the year in [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2008, 8:29am EDT
    by Mark

  • A Dream for Some, A Nightmare to Others: Obama Says Powell Will Have a Role in His Administration

    On the “Today Show,” Obama said new BFF Colin Powell will have a role in his administration, whether it be formal or informal. America’s two most beyond race brothers chilling in the White House; planning world domination. Scary? Not? This is of course campaign fluff to add exclamation point to Powell’s [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2008, 8:18am EDT
    by Mark

  • It’s Just Because He’s, You Know, Black

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    Kleinheider goes a long way in attempting to paint Powell’s endorsement as ineffectual and possibly a win for McCain. As part of his reasoning: Most whites in America have no sense of racial solidarity. They do not think of themselves as white Americans or any kind of hyphenated American, they see [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2008, 2:27pm EDT
    by Mark

  • Colin Polls-well

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    The results of the poll, with a massive 23 participants, correctly predicted that Collin Powell would endorse Barack Obama this morning on NBC’s Meet the Press. Meanwhile, John McCain was on Fox making the argument that Powell’s endorsement was expected and of no surprise and little consequence, of so little consequence [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2008, 2:00pm EDT
    by Mark

  • Curse You Palin!

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    What a waste, after all the build up, Sarah Palin’s appearance on Saturday Night Live was really uninspired. It was pretty much like any other time Lorne Michaels invites a previously lampooned person to appear on the show for some vengeance, just like Mark Wahlberg’s similarly sporty but unfunny appearance. [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2008, 4:29am EDT
    by Mark

  • Saturday Night Live - Update Thursday: Jesse Jackson - Video - NBC.com

    more about "Saturday Night Live - Update Thursday…", posted with vodpod Posted in Uncategorized       [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2008, 3:40am EDT
    by Mark

  • Will Colin Powell Endorse? Poll!

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    What do I think? Post Jump. I think he will. Unless he’s going on Meet the Press to talk only about Africa First, which I doubt. I think perhaps the Fox story may have pushed his button. Posted in National, Politics, Presidential Election, Race Relations   Tagged: Barack Obama, Colin Powell, Meet the Press, [...]
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    Posted: October 17, 2008, 8:46pm EDT
    by Mark

  • Just In: Fox News Racist Lede Evincing GOP Collective Mental Meltdown

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    Okay kids, this is just racist, sorry. I sense a very special award coming for Fox News. See Colin what happens when you leave the plantation? (fist tap to Junichi) Apparently the Wingnuts have gone completely into Bizarro World at the prospect of having a Black Democrat as President of (these [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2008, 6:05am EDT
    by Mark

  • Finally, the Final Debate

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    Before the Democratic primary ended, I compared a then hypothetical Obama/McCain match-up to the one Presidential campaign with which I have intimate knowledge, Clinton/Dole in ’96. Looking back at that post, turns out the comparison was apt, save that without the ability to predict two future game changers, McCain’s selection [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2008, 2:26am EDT
    by Mark

  • The Black Male Katherine Harris Leading the Attack on ACORN

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    The Republican apoplexy about ACORN is false anger and manufactured controversy. Yes, worrying about potential voter fraud is a valid concern. Democrats have been vigilant about the protection of voter enfranchisement and fraud since their support of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. ACORN and other groups target low-income and [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2008, 2:28pm EDT
    by Mark

  • It is as if God has Endorsed.

    Former University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith has endorsed Sen. Obama, announced in an Email to supporters of Obama and John Edwards, whom Smith campaigned for during the Democratic primary. I don’t know whether this makes a difference in the North Carolina race at this late date, and if [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2008, 8:51am EDT
    by Mark

  • Blazing Obama

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    One of the more obvious parallels between movies and real life are Sen. Obama and Bart, the Black sherrif in Blazing Saddles, played by Cleavon Little. For those who don’t know of this film (minus 200 cool points if you do not), it features Little and his partner, the Waco [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2008, 7:22am EDT
    by Mark

  • The Republicans: The Party of Whine and Cheese

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    Let us recall Jonas Goldberg, son of Lucianne Goldberg, the woman who also gave us Linda Tripp. Goldberg the Lesser is one of those handwringing conservatives looking for a bloody shirt to wave at any opportunity in these times when nearly any Republican shirt is dampened with the blood of [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2008, 4:47pm EDT
    by Mark

  • The Conservatives May Mass Explode

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    Seems that, in an effort to seem as though he knows what he is doing, Treasury Secretary Paulson may offer mad stacks of cheese to those ailing banks who ask for it (and they will ask for it, no diggity). This will allow banks to skip the waiting period of [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2008, 6:25am EDT
    by Mark

  • Who is more funnier, Andy Samberg or folks at a Sarah Palin Rally?

    more about "Who is more funnier, Andy Samberg or …", posted with vodpod Samberg as Mark Wahlberg or . . . fist tap to The Jed Report. Hey, give a couple bucks to the Obama Biden team if you like it (or if you don’t) Posted in National, Politics, Pop [...] [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2008, 4:36am EDT
    by Mark

  • All Hands on Dreck

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    As the election draws nigh and Obama stretches his lead to the magic double digit number (theoretically negating Bradley/Gantt), the McCain team prepares to launch negative ads, as the Campaign 101 manual tells you to do if you are losing. We don’t call it “negative campaigning” anymore, we’re merely making [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2008, 6:08am EDT
    by Mark

  • Dork Nation for Obama

    Dork Nation for Obama Posted in National, Politics, Presidential Election   Tagged: Barack Obama    [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2008, 1:39pm EDT
    by Mark

  • The Vice Presidential Debate: Sarah Palin Funnier Than Tina Fey

    Number of comments: 3
    Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin owe Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric and Tina Fey a debt of gratitude. Without Gibson’s mild questioning, Couric’s patient follow-ups and Fey’s comic shredding of Palin, we’d all be talking about what a horrid, ill informed, clearly tutored, stumble-bum performance Palin turned in at the debate. [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2008, 6:34am EDT
    by Mark

  • The First Debate: Advantage Obama

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    You’ve seen the beginning of the end, that is, if you don’t consider the nomination of Governor Sarah Palin as the GOP Vice Presidential candidate as such. McCain finished a miserable week of goofy grandstanding and being ethered by a late night talk show host with a grumpy, persnickety performance [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2008, 1:07am EDT
    by Mark

  • Ludacris Pumps Up Obama, Obama smacks down

    Yesterday I heard a “leak” of Ludacris’ new song “Politics (Obama is here).” The song is of middling lyrical wit but ecstatic in its support of Sen. Obama’s Presidential campaign. It also contained some very strong language that is sure to get conservatives and the Tennessee Guerrilla Women  frothing at [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2008, 6:51pm EDT
    by Mark

  • Don’t Hurt Em Burt and Ernie

    Number of comments: 3
    Surely by the time the AM rolls around, everyone will have seen Bert and Ernie of Sesame Street getting down with MOP’s “Ante Up.” I just want to be in on the hits. Now, there have been many Sesame Street-rap mash-ups blazing across your Youtubes and your Googlevideojoints. Few (any?) [...]
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    Posted: July 24, 2008, 2:35am EDT
    by Mark

  • Mickey Kaus is an idiot

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    Kaus thinks Obama is being condescending. He probably should have taken a cue from David Gergen, who, last night on CNN argued he was not in the best position to comment on how Obama’s town hall lecture would play in the Black community, being a middle aged White dude and [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2008, 9:01am EDT
    by Mark

  • Obama’s Dramas

    First, I have to brag, I got to take part in an interview with David Maraniss on our radio show Freestyles last Monday. This is what you guys are missing when you’re listening to them drone on about pottery on NPR. Now then . . . This Jesse Jackson/Obama flap is a [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2008, 8:28am EDT
    by Mark

  • The Littlest Dork

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    New baby girl Born last Wednesday. 7lbs 11 ozs [...]
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    Posted: June 16, 2008, 7:21pm EDT
    by Mark

  • I?m Not Posting

    Number of comments: 2
    Monday is moving day. Today is my birthday. Title III has not given us the green light. I’m backed up with interviews and articles to write. The baby’s due date is the 25th. But I have opinions on everything from Hipster rap to the Mets sucking ass to Ronaldo wanting to leave Manchester United to [...]
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    Posted: June 06, 2008, 5:35am EDT
    by Mark

  • The McCain Strategy For 2008

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    If Rove can do it, so can I. John McCain was considered a long shot for many reasons, however the most important was that he was not considered to appeal to the Republican base as well as a strong social conservatives like Huck or fiscal conservatives like Romney. In a season [...]
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    Posted: May 22, 2008, 5:26pm EDT
    by Mark

  • Next Big Thing: Masia One

    Number of comments: 3
    I’m sure none of you remember when I used to complain about the doofuses trying to make Tigarah into a star (based solely on the faulty idea that she was the next M.I.A., as if that’s a good thing) while there were all these other female MCs, Japanese or otherwise, [...]
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    Posted: May 22, 2008, 4:44am EDT
    by Mark

  • Presenting Strawberry Denim

    IMG_3475, originally uploaded by tetsuwanatom1. I thought this would make a great album cover, except there are no more albums. The band would be named something like Strawberry Denim and they would play a mix of rap and power pop. Pitchfork would proclaim the record an astonishing mix of brash, urban [...]
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    Posted: May 20, 2008, 6:24am EDT
    by Mark

  • Taking a Break From All My Worries

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    To talk about Bill Hobbs and the Tennessee GOP. Look (Obama-ism #21), Hobbs is about Hobbs. Flacks in the game are supposed to stay in the shadows. If more than, oh, 10,000 people know your name and your job description IS NOT addressing the White House press corps, you’ve failed [...]
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    Posted: May 20, 2008, 2:11am EDT
    by Mark

  • Juggling

    The Little Dork says he wants Obama to be President. That’s the only endorsement he really needs, innit? Also, whenever he sees Olbermann on TV, he asks “What’s he mad about?” If you’d expect I’d have a crapload of commentary about what has transpired over the last few days in the [...]
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    Posted: May 08, 2008, 2:23am EDT
    by Mark

  • UNC Spokesman says Roy Didnt Endorse Obama

    Number of comments: 3
    Of course he didn’t. Wink. A UNC basketball rep described the statement Williams made calling Obama “the next President of the United States” as “playful.” Of course Williams could have refused the Obama campaign’s request to have Obama on court. No, instead, he offered Obama some great free media in [...]
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    Posted: May 01, 2008, 2:05pm EDT
    by Mark

  • Back to McCain

    The latest WSJ/NBC poll shows what we’ve known all along to be true; this is a great environment for Democrats but a difficult one for the two Democratic candidates. While a solid majority of responders cast aspersions on Bush and Republicans, McCain does a bit better. He trails Obama by three [...]
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    Posted: April 30, 2008, 7:09pm EDT
    by Mark

  • Dennis Perrin on Jeremiah Wright and White Flight (bonus round: Lanny Davis)

    Number of comments: 3
    It’s like this guy read my mind. I’ll reprint excerpts, but I implore you all to read this in it’s entirety. You gotta love white liberals. They really are a special bunch. Just ask them — they’ll be more than happy to confirm the fact. Their squirming and hand-wringing over Jeremiah Wright’s [...]
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    Posted: April 30, 2008, 11:16am EDT
    by Mark

  • Bloggers on Wright V Obama: Lets Get Predictable!!!

    Number of comments: 3
    First Clinton supporter to try and keep feet to the fire, Todd Beton at MyDD, who seems to feel that Obama should have burned a cardboard figure of Wright in efigy. “Democrat” Taylor Marsh would like to Obama to explain why he goes to church . . . Not unsurprisingly, Betton [...]
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    Posted: April 29, 2008, 5:24pm EDT
    by Mark

  • Roy Williams Endorses Barack Obama?

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    In a photo op for the ages, Sen. Obama scrimmaged with the UNC Tar Heels hoops team. While in the middle of the session, Williams joked, You guys are leaving the next president of the United States wide open. Regarding the North Carolina primary, it’s of dubious worth considering there [...]
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    Posted: April 29, 2008, 1:09pm EDT
    by Mark

  • Pacman to become a Dallas Cowboy

    ESPN reported last night the Titans and the Cowboys have agreed in principle to a conditional trade. The Titans are to receive two draft picks potentially (only one if Pac is not reinstated within the year) and other consideration. As I’ve suggested previously, Pac should thrive there. The citizens of Dallas [...]
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    Posted: April 24, 2008, 11:08am EDT
    by Mark

  • Video: Little Dragon - Constant Surprises

    Number of comments: 3
    This Swedish R&B band’s (!!) first record was on my top ten list in 2007. Much to my surprise, I heard a cut from the LP whist roaming around the local Old Navy store recently. I don’t know when or if the record will be released in the US. Till [...]
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    Posted: April 24, 2008, 3:30am EDT
    by Mark

  • North Carolina Republicans Release Attack Ad, McCain Ducks

    Number of comments: 3
    As Russert said, the NC GOP do indeed have an Obama attack ad, and as I guessed, it’s linked to the two Democratic candidates for Governor in the state. Guess who is in the ad? As far as attack ads go, it is fairly tame. Clinton’s ad, “waving the bloody [...]
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    Posted: April 23, 2008, 11:21am EDT
    by Mark

  • Why Atmosphere is like Tha Blue Herb

    They are both from cold climates (Minneapolis and Hokkaido) [...]
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    Posted: April 23, 2008, 1:53am EDT
    by Mark

  • Post PA, On to NC: The Neverending Story

    Number of comments: 2
    Clinton, as of the Little Dorks bedtime, is up 10% (9.5 according to Field hands). Pat Buchannan is on MSNBC curiously claiming that Clinton has momentum in her favor. Despite the near mathematical impossibility of her winning, and perhaps much to the pleasure of the press corps, we continue to [...]
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    Posted: April 23, 2008, 11:44pm EDT
    by Mark

  • Bill Clinton Claims, Quite Unecessarily, That He is Not a Racist

    I know the big pull quote on this statement will be about Clinton’s caught-on-tape profanity, but listen closely as Pres. Clinton avoids the question, in a clever but sneaky way, posed to him regarding the South Carolina statement. The statement in question is his response to a reporter where he [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2008, 4:42pm EDT
    by Mark

  • Who Dat Is? Its Not My Baby, Daddy.

    Number of comments: 3
    Re: HB1523 Even though I’m inherently suspicious of anything Campfield supports, I’m not convinced by the majority of the arguments, especially Rob’s grandstand-y rhetoric, so I look at this legislation. He’s right. It’s faulty. Once paternity and responsibilities implied by the established paternity are in place, to attempt to change the support [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2008, 4:37am EDT
    by Mark
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