For all the hullabaloo the last week over how to bail out the financial markets, and amid John McCain’s “Country Clubs First” meme, and Bush’s dire warning and call to stabilize the markets before things get much worse, you’d think that today would be the day that Congress would pull together after a weekend’s worth [...]

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The other day I was speaking with a colleague about the election and how personal histories are involved in our political choices.
What was interesting from our conversation was that my colleague harbored a deep resentment towards those who were able to experience success easily, or were able to easily obtain things for which he himself [...]

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I’ve been in London for the last few weeks on work. I hadn’t assumed that the Brits were just as stupid as Americans when it came to astronomical market inflation and leveraged risk.
I was wrong.

I usually pick up a paper to/from my way to work each day. Sometimes I pick up two.
With the exception of [...]

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For those of you who are still having a hard time wrapping your head around the nature of the circus-freak that is Sarah Palin, here’s a brief primer.
Who votes for Sarah Palin? The McCain campaign has been pushing the idea—in fact counting on it—that Palin would draw disaffected Hillary Clinton voters to the Republican ticket. [...]

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Checking headlines over at Yahoo! News and came across this:

Doctors remove benign lesion from Bush’s forehead
WASHINGTON - President Bush underwent treatment for a benign lesion over the weekend, leaving a noticeable scab on his forehead as he went about his business on Tuesday.

I have to ask … was it his brain? He wasn’t using it [...]

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Of pigs and pit bulls:

Lipstick wars: McCain claims sexism
The McCain campaign quickly posted a mischievous video charging that the “lipstick on a pig” quote by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was a sexist reference to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Seems to me that Sarah Palin is the one that put the lipstick joke out there in the [...]

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Places everyone! Places! We’ve got a show to run here.
Barbara Curtis over at the Christian Science Monitor is ginning up a real life controversy over the Sarah Palin hullabaloo. Unfortunately, Barbara is missing the “real life” part of the controversy:

Sarah Palin can have it all
Bluemont, Va. - The five children. The newborn diagnosed with Down [...]

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Usually, the letters to the editor in the Rocky Mountain News are of a relatively vapid quality. And then, on occasion, we get crap like this:

Nightmare for Dems
Jim Schwartz, Centennial
The Democrats’ worst presidential election nightmare has occurred: They have been im-Palin-ed with John McCain’s vice presidential choice.

What the fuck?
Who on the Rocky’s editorial staff thinks [...]

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