Bittersweetgate

The news over the past few weeks – or, more accurately, over and over and over over the past few weeks – has been all about Barack Obama’s digitally-recorded comments about small-town working-class bitterness over economic insecurity. I’m torn....

Going, going, gone-zales

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales Resigns – The New York Times: Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by controversy and accusations of perjury before Congress, announced his resignation in Washington today, declaring that he had...

Nyet, nyet Soviet Canuckistan

Bill Doskoch wants Canada to have a more modern insulting nickname than Soviet Canuckistan… and ideally, one that wasn’t coined by a raving xenophobe: [I]f somebody — anybody — has a more au courant idea for an amusing replacement for Soviet...
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