Jon Cummings: Why am I so bummed that the debate season is over? Please, Barack, take McCain up on his pleas for a dozen more town halls! I know, I…
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Ted Asregadoo
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I donÁ¢€â„¢t know if you remember the days when newscasters would routinely smile when the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the day in positive numbers. It was a not-so-subtle sign…
Jon Cummings
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Make no mistake: The new right-wing comedy, An American Carol, is just as bad as you imagine it to be, if not worse. Even as I walked into the theater…
Ted Asregadoo
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Dw. Dunphy My initial idea for taking in tonight’s town hall debate was to do so with headphones and without visuals. I’ll admit, over the past month or so, the…
Ted Asregadoo
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ThereÁ¢€â„¢s a phrase made famous by Thomas Hobbes, used to great effect in Hannah ArendtÁ¢€â„¢s The Origins of Totalitarianism, and that is: Homo homini lupus. That Latin phrase roughly translates…
Jon Cummings
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Bill MaherÁ¢€â„¢s aversion to religion is well documented, thanks to his regular, tangential diatribes on Real Time and the occasional scripted bit in his Á¢€Å“New RulesÁ¢€ segments. This weekend, however,…
Jon Cummings
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Jon Cummings: My junior year at college I took a creative writing class in which all the students received copies of each otherÁ¢€â„¢s short stories and offered critiques in a…
Jon Cummings
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What a confluence of events this week! A few hours after this column posts, Sarah Palin takes the stage for what might turn out to be her one unscripted, real-time…
Ted Asregadoo
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Close of the market, 9/29/08 My political/economic socialization came during the heady days of free market zealotry.Á‚ 1984 was a year when it seemed like many of my friends —…
Jon Cummings
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This past Sunday, in a coordinated effort to flout a federal law banning political endorsements from the pulpit, 33 evangelical and fundamentalist pastors in 22 states used their sermons either…
Ted Asregadoo
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Ted Asregadoo This is the first time Barack Obama and John McCain have faced each other as competitors rather than Senate colleagues, and itÁ¢€â„¢s clear that the chumminess of that…
Dw. Dunphy
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We’ve been fairly professional about this up ’til now. However, after this week, my objectivity is gone. Hitch up your sports cup, rant fans: here I go. President George W….
Jon Cummings
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Once again John McCain has chosen chaos over constancy as his presidential campaign Á¢€¦ Oops, I forgot: McCain currently doesnÁ¢€â„¢t have a presidential campaign. ItÁ¢€â„¢s been Á¢€Å“suspended,Á¢€ even as he…
Ted Asregadoo
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Between the Devil and the deep blue sea. Those are our options in dealing with this financial mess — or so it seems if youÁ¢€â„¢ve been following events since the…
Dw. Dunphy
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I’m not a politics junkie, really. I know that might be hard to believe based on some of my columns over the last year. You’d find support in your disbelief…
Ted Asregadoo
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If journalism is the first draft of history, and history is argument without end, then Matt Taibbi has fired the opening salvo of a new argument about the current political…
Jon Cummings
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John McCain and Sarah Palin enjoy a light moment on the campaign trail, between feedings. From yesterday’s New York Times: “Laura Chase, the campaign manager during Ms. Palin’s first run…
Jon Cummings
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Though my head is exploding over the lunacy of John McCainÁ¢€â„¢s increasingly cowardly and dishonorable presidential campaign, it seems imperative that I join the rest of the political culture in…
Ted Asregadoo
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The current breathless Á¢€Å“Sarah Palin WatchÁ¢€ going on in the mainstream and not-so-mainstream media is one of those political phenomena where the accuracy of her claims doesnÁ¢€â„¢t really matter to…
Robert Cass
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My girlfriend, Aimiee, and I finally returned from China on August 24. It was a few days earlier than we expected, thanks to a summer wind that came blowing in…
Jon Cummings
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Dw.: Well, John McCain is in a pickle now, isn’t he? Last week he chose a running mate that would satisfy certain weak sectors of his ticket – the Christian…
Jon Cummings
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Dw. Dunphy: Yes! I have been waiting for this all week: Palin Time! Do you think they’ll do the Dead Parrot sketch? Maybe even … the Cheese Shop?! I can’t…
Jon Cummings
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Dw. Dunphy: I thought IÁ¢€â„¢d start things off tonight with a joke: So Á¢€¦ Judas, Benedict Arnold, and the dude from Raiders of the Lost Ark who gets the spikes…
Ted Asregadoo
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An Open Letter to Hurricane Gustav By Ted Asregadoo Damn you, Gustav!Á‚ I mean, how could you have the audacity to downgrade from a Category 3 to the Category 2…
Jon Cummings
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ItÁ¢€â„¢s hard to know exactly what to write in this space today, because as of this writing itÁ¢€â„¢s difficult to know what form this weekÁ¢€â„¢s Republican National Convention will take….
Ted Asregadoo
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Well, the big night arrived, and the three of us gathered together to experience this historic moment in America the only way we knew how:Á‚ via the warm glow of…
Jon Cummings
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Jon: Well, so much for the Á¢€Å“civic dutyÁ¢€ I believed would guilt the Popdose community into following the political conventions: Even my heretofore partner in blogging crime, Ted Asredagoo, abandoned…
Jon Cummings
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Jon: Our frequent commenter Á¢€Å“ElaineÁ¢€ is eager for us to objectify Hillary tonight. Are we Á¢€Å“upÁ¢€ for it? Ted: IÁ¢€â„¢m gameÁ¢€¦ Jon: So, Mark Warner looks pretty good. I keep…
Ted Asregadoo
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Jon: What were your impressions of Ted & the Kennedys? He looked pretty good, considering. Ted: He did a very good job. Kennedy finished probably his last political speech, and…
Jon Cummings
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Jon Cummings: Welcome to the first installment in a Popdose political adventure that wonÁ¢€â„¢t require you (or us) to leave the computer! HereÁ¢€â„¢s my little secret, Ted: A few months…