Politico’s mea culpa (what’s Latin for, “we’re all guilty”?) on the media’s total screw-up in predicting the New Hampshire Democratic primary. “New Hampshire sealed it. The winner was Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the loser — not just of Tuesday’s primary but of the 2008 campaign cycle so far — was us.” Us being the media [...]
Thank goodness again for XM Radio, which over the last week has played all eighteen minutes and forty-two seconds of “Close To The Edge” at least twice on its “Deep Tracks” channel.
“Giuliani was supposed to roll out what his campaign was billing as the “largest tax cut in the history of America” and the most aggressive plan of any presidential candidate …”
When I first moved to New York City back in 1979, I was stunned to discover that I lived in a city with a winning baseball team. The guy that really stuck out for me on the Yankees was Rich Gossage, their closer. I remember hearing Phil Rizzuto describing how Gossage had just retired something like 28 consecutive batters — the equivalent of a perfect game — over several appearances.
I you’re like me and you hear a name enough times that you’re intrigued, wondering “who is this person?” you pull out your credit card, jump on over to bn.com and search away. This happened to me with Howlin’ Wolf. I read a lot of bios about musicians and his name kept coming up as [...]
A collection of photographs of actual nuclear and thermonuclear detonations from Trinity through a Chinese test of 1967. A frightening thing I noticed is the scale, or rather, the lack of scale, as the detonations became more powerful. The Operation Crossroads tests of 1946 rated 21 kilotons. In the images, easily identifiable markets give the [...]
How many movies have you ever seen with so many plot twists, and such a surprising ending, that made you say, “I’ve got to watch that again?” A few I’m sure .. I know I have.
Don’t miss TPM’s Golden Duke Awards, a rundown of the year’s best scandals. It’s a snarky liberal’s dream come true.
Not that I’m an aficionado or anything, but I heard something different tonight at M/SO’s First Night celebration. The David Glukh Klezmer Ensemble features, instead of the usual clarinet, a guy playing a rotary-valved piccolo trumpet. Also in the band, a violin, acoustic guitar, six-string electric bass and percussion. A really nice, really different sound. [...]
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