It’s, like, the Son of Man, man. Hat tip: Kerry Hardy.

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Protesting can be a fun, community-building experience. But is it effective? Sometimes narrowly targeted ones clearly can be, especially when they draw attention to a heretofore ignored issue. But in “What Democracy Looks Like,” I suggest that convention activism may be a gift to Bush.

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The popular meme among right bloggers who haven’t, like, actually fact-checked Zell Miller’s speech is that people are focusing on the batshit tone of it because they can’t answer the substance. (Maybe that’s why he went with the batshit tone…) Those who have fact checked it realize that the substance is mostly bollocks, so Michael […]

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Among the most effective parts of President Bush’s convention speech was the segment where he takes a few self deprecating pokes at some of the personal quirks and faults that people like to pick on. Not the substantive policy stuff, mind you, but the smirk and the verbal stumbles and so on. Even hardline Kerry […]

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Maybe MoveOn can run this message during Teletubbies.

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Lesson one: political conventions are deeply creepy events. Wading through thousands upon thousands of people who regard a monstrous little mutant like George W. Bush as the messiah was enough to make even the rabid leftism of the Thursday night leftblogger party at The Tank a relief. Lesson two: It’s time to change the picture […]

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