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Feel free to add your own suggestions in comments: Black Swan  —  Thom Yorke Succexy —   Metric I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free  —  Nina Simone Sick Of You  —  Lou Reed Lip Service —   Elvis Costello Nothing Much to Lose  —  My Bloody Valentine Cake Parade  —  Georgie James […]

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Ezra Klein and Rachel Maddow absolutely nail this: A four, five, or six hour line at the polling station is just a poll tax exacted in time rather than dollars.  That’s not to say we should holler “disenfranchisement” every time there’s a bit of a queue at the booth, or even that it’s obvious which […]

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So, having written a fair amount about new media and deceptive political tactics, my friend Angela Valdez’s piece in Salon today raises a question that’s been on my mind for a while, but that I’ve been a little wary of writing about. Most of the folks who’ve written about the prospects for exploiting network technology […]

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Per a conversation with some friends last week, I certainly hope that all these larger-than-life, “OBEY Giant” style Shepard Fairey posters of Obama’s face come down when and if he’s actually president. Campaigning is campaigning, but I’m going to be hugely creeped out to live in a city where the countenance of the Dear Leader […]

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Here’s what seems especially puzzling about all the whining over the L.A. Times‘ refusal to release a tape of Barack Obama at Rashid Khalidi’s farewell dinner—aside from the fact that what we’ve read of Obama’s remarks there make it fairly clear that Obama found their conversations interesting and useful because they disagree about Israel. The […]

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I’ve been watching, with a certain morbid fascination, the ongoing saga of the “Michelle Obama tapes” hoax. For those just tuning in, this began two weeks ago, when an obscure WordPress blog calling itself “African Press International” claimed that the would-be first lady had called them up to deliver a daffy self-destructive rant—in rather conspicuously […]

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I explain my presidential preference in Reason’s 2008 election survey. My answer to the primary question seemed pretty representative of the respondents: Living in the District of Columbia, I see little reason to mar my as-yet unblemished record of nonvoting. But if I lived in Virigina or Florida, I’d be ticking the box for Obama—not […]

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I’d meant to write about this back around the time of the last debate, but I’m always puzzled by those little focus groups of the volk the networks put together to watch the presidential contenders spar. They invariably go around beforehand and ask these self-described undecided voters what they’re waiting to hear over the course […]

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First, credit where credit is due to bloggers on the right, like Michelle Malkin, who right at the outset acknowledged that something sounded awfully fishy about Ashley Todd’s now-infamous tall tale about being violently assaulted by an enraged Obama fan. That said, however, I’m a little dismayed by the number of conservative bloggers who appear […]

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