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The truthiness of Sarah Palin’s maverick credentials
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Yesterday, the McCain campaign launched this new ad, titled “Original Mavericks”: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVIaqCjvLpU&w=425&h=344] “She opposed the Bridge to Nowhere”, the ad’s voice-over declares. Which is pretty great. Except, well, she didn’t.…
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Google at the conventions
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Sarah Lai Stirland has a nice piece has a good piece over at Wired about what we’re going to be doing in Denver and in St. Paul at the Democratic…
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McCain and the Cross
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Keep an eye on this: Andrew (and others) are poking around McCain’s cross anecdote, and so far can find no reference to it (not in a prior retelling of McCain’s…
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Could it be… Hillary?
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Like everyone else, I’ve wasted a ton of cycles wondering who Barack’s VP choice would be. For a long time, I’ve thought Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer — governor in a…
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Blog? What blog?
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Even I will acknowledge the irony of being the guy who has proclaimed — for years — that anyone who says they don’t have time to blog is lying, lazy,…
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How Twitter and Google Earth Saved the 4th of July
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When I say “saved 4th of July”, I really mean, “saved me from disappointing my children.” Which, as any parent would readily understand, means exactly the same thing. We live…



