Archive: November 25, 2007 - December 1, 2007
The Politics of Nastiness
[From Erik Wemple at City Paper, we learn that help is on the way!!! No longer, says Brady, should users plow through clutter to locate features such as onBeing or Achenblog or a Marc Fisher column. "People have to...
By | November 30, 2007; 11:32 AM ET | Comments (264)
Rough Night To Be a Republican
I'm going to save my insights, bon mots, cleverisms and winning digressions about last night's GOP debate for when I have to turn in my weekly, and universally ignored, Two Cents item for The Trail. Which I think will...
By | November 29, 2007; 10:16 AM ET | Comments (234)
Remembering "Long Distance"
From my rental car I called my cellphone company four times yesterday to fix an error the company made, and it's possible that during one or two of these protracted conversations my voice betrayed impatience. I'm not saying this...
By | November 28, 2007; 12:31 PM ET | Comments (145)
A Simple Theory of Everything
In Nashville -- in a coffee shop, reading the coverage of this Sean Taylor tragedy -- and feeling sick about the whole thing. We'll draw broader lessons when we know who, why, how, what the exact circumstances were, whether...
By | November 27, 2007; 3:39 PM ET | Comments (107)
Who's Rich? Who's Middle Class?
[My story in today's paper.] Who's rich? Who's middle class? How can you tell the difference? By the "upper class," do we mean the yacht-club set, the ascot-wearing folks with the Thurston Howell III lockjaw diction and the monogrammed...
By | November 26, 2007; 7:51 AM ET | Comments (255)