David Schrag examines his navel and the world around it
Can you imagine conducting a job interview with an applicant where you would ask questions that took about 45 seconds to phrase and then you wouldn’t be allowed to speak again until the applicant had spoken for two minutes straight? Ludicrous, right? But that’s what we’re going to be subjected to again this fall. Whatever [...]
Honestly. Is there any job anywhere that can adequately prepare someone to be President of the United States? Any combination of jobs? Any life experience? No. The answer is simply no. Senator? One voice in a hundred. Governor? No finger on the button. Fortune 100 CEO? Wait ’til you have to deal with separation of [...]
Some real-time reactions to the GOP VP nominee: She looks like Tina Fey, but she sounds more like Frances McDormand in Fargo. Hey, I thank God it was John McCain in that POW cell and not me, but was his mission and confinement really harder than being President of the United States? “There’s a time [...]
And set your DVRs. Barack Obama on The O’Reilly Factor. Thursday at 8 pm EDT. This should be good.
In Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, it was Michael Palin who noted that “every sperm is sacred.” Apparently the Palins of Alaska share the sentiment. This stuff gets weirder by the day. The McCain-Palin campaign has addressed last weekend’s rumors that Sarah Palin’s teenage daughter Bristol is actually the mother of Trig Palin, who [...]
Yesterday I posted a pretty ridiculous story about Sarah Palin, just to see if at some point the little bit of nonsense might get picked up by the Internet rumor mill. Today I started Googling to see if there’s been any traction. Much to my surprise, I found a “real” rumor spreading that is much [...]
Less than twenty-four hours after being selected as the GOP’s candidate for Vice President by Senator John McCain, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is already the target of some particularly vicious rumors circulating through the Internet “blogosphere.” One such tale dates back to Palin’s days as a star high school basketball player in Wasilla, Alaska. According [...]
Boy, I thought I was so clever to note that Sarah Palin and Tina Fey look alike. But a Google search for +”tina fey” +”sarah palin” already yields 1,160 hits. And that’s within an hour or two of her selection as McCain’s running mate. The resemblance, from certain angles, is rather striking: I sure do [...]
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Another great read from the New Yorker. Packer shows that while Republicans have been able to win recent elections by tapping into voters’ conceptual dislike of taxes and politicians, they are losing their places in government because they don’t care much about governing. Just as Americans hate Congress but love their own senators and representatives, [...]