Sarah Palin's first press conference
It's in a comedy skit, and still no questions!
Toothpaste we can believe in?
Campaign typography and design in a toothpaste package
Joe the plumber
A new cliché in American politics
George Orwell on totalitarian history
Created, not learned.
Scholastic poll results
Kids "vote" for Barack Obama, John McCain, Stephen Colbert, Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers, and themselves for president
Dream with a typo in it
Columbain coffee?
Summer nostalgia
Gail Collins: "I miss August. August was neat. The Dow was over 10,000 and nobody had ever heard of Sarah Palin."
Fear and hope
When cries of "Terrorist!" and "Kill him!" can be heard at political rallies, I know that our country is in great danger.
Enough with the sink
"The kitchen sink strategy": a dying metaphor rears its head
Who is the real Barack Obama?
He's the guy Ralph Stanley just endorsed.
John, also
The most frequently used words in the vice-presidential debate
Thursday Night Live
Why C-SPAN is the best choice for watching presidential and vice-presidential debates
Jim Lehrer's Post-It Notes
A splash of color at the 9.26.08 presidential debate
Couric and Palin and Orwell
"It is at this point that the special connexion between politics and the debasement of language becomes clear."
"Yeah, mocked, I guess that's the word."
Sarah Palin can't think her way out of a paper bag.
Robert McChesney
A talk on journalism, politics, and democracy
"Size is the answer"
Plans for survival, from Republicans and from William S. Burroughs' dinosaurs
"[A] blank page"
The Palin candidacy and neo-con dreams (and nightmares)
Ed Koch endorses Obama
Excerpt from his statement
"The fright begins"
On the prospect of Palin
Community organizer
Jesus was a "community organizer."
Susan Eisenhower
To speak at the Democratic National Convention
Why is Illinois so corrupt?
There are many reasons
Obama!
CNN and MSNBC just called it. I just wanted the moment on my blog.
Metaphor of the day
June 3 = February 5
Creative timekeeping
It depends what the meaning of June is
Hillary Clinton and kleos
I'm teaching the Iliad and the Odyssey in a four-week summer session for undergraduates: two hours of teaching in the morning, five days a...
Creative counting
The Clinton campaign, the popular vote, and my undergrad GAP
Hillary Clinton as Norma Desmond
[AP photo.] She's still big (it's the primaries that got small) and, it seems, incapable of acknowledging reality. Joe Gillis on Norma ...
Political metaphor of the day
A crash in West Virginia