Month: June 2010

Personally, I am not worried about Nate Silver going to the New York Times. Yeah, I know he is being assimilated into The Borg and the The Times is a badly flawed organization. But I see this as empowering Silver by giving him...

There’s been a lot of pearl-clutching recently over the White House’s involvement in Senate races, but they haven’t done anything illegal or out of the ordinary. And, I think people have been missing the real...

This is what you call ‘playing the Holocaust card.’ I’m not Jewish but most of my closest friends are, and I hope I’m allowed to be offended on their behalf. I think falsely accusing people of saying...

I know we’ve become inured to expressions of racism over the last decade. If we looked we could find examples of such behavior every day in the news. Indeed, many conservative bloggers and TV and radio...

Interesting that Republicans are capable of being outraged about racism when it is used against their own candidates. I guess there’s hope in that.