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@jayrosen_nyu was right, the WashPost backed down from the lobbyist "salons" http://tr.im/qDPm

Jul 2 2009 2:41pm

via @jayrosen_nyu, WashPost sells access to "those powerful few" for $25-250,000. Paper as lobbyist facilitator. Wow. http://tr.im/qCzb

Jul 2 2009 10:32am

"People like me" and "Bang Bang" by K'Naan are two of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. http://bit.ly/3we7KE

Jun 30 2009 5:31pm

I agree with Nico Pitney: there's nothing wrong with reporters "colluding" about presser q's when the q's are serious. http://bit.ly/p69Pv

Jun 30 2009 3:43pm

(No point looking for GOP moderates who want a reality-based approach to policy, I guess. Ideological purity above all else.)

Jun 30 2009 3:33pm

"The real test of ideological purity will come when Congress takes up health care" -GOP "moderates" on the 8 Rs for ACES http://bit.ly/bt0M3

Jun 30 2009 3:32pm

[retweet] @gopsolutions: New strategy for Coleman in Minnesota Senate race: Appeal to Iranian Guardian Council.

Jun 30 2009 3:21pm

MN Supreme Court finally declares Franken the winner: http://bit.ly/fCeH8 (Coleman to appeal to Fed court, then to God. Seated by Nov '12?)

Jun 30 2009 2:38pm

So much written on Am. drug culture "that it would take weeks to roll all that paper and smoke it" A gem from Ryan Grim http://bit.ly/15H7Ii

Jun 29 2009 4:38pm

BU has a lot of nerve to keep asking me to donate after charging me $30k/yr in student loans to get their overpriced degree.

Jun 29 2009 10:38am

Sandra Tsing Loh's dissection of her own divorce is one of the most honest social critiques I've read in a while. http://bit.ly/18TgdH

Jun 29 2009 1:49am

Observing the hissyfit Dana Milbank & co are throwing at Nico Pitney & HuffPost and laughing. Waaaaahh. (Background: http://bit.ly/1ahjpT)

Jun 29 2009 1:09am

David Sirota goes totally, unreachably off the grid in rural China, "an all-too-rare experiment in human life" http://bit.ly/16Ps3u

Jun 29 2009 1:04am

[retweet] @LilyMazahery: Ebrahim Nabavi, others confirming report of Mousavi arrest.

Jun 29 2009 12:57am

Maybe for the first time, the US stands *against* a coup in Latin Am against a leftist govt. The moral high ground. http://bit.ly/Y4urQ

Jun 29 2009 12:44am

Billy Mays, the OxiClean/Hercules Hook/Mighty Putty guy, is dead at 50 (from hitting his head on a plane landing) http://bit.ly/xvx0S

Jun 28 2009 10:21pm

[retweet] @LilyMazahery: Mousavi was just arrested in Iran.

Jun 28 2009 8:29pm

I wrote "cap & trade" before and it shows up as a TM symbol... in case you were confused

Jun 27 2009 6:23pm

Obama wastes no time! Health care, cap&trade, Sotomayor, Iran, Afg drug policy, financial reg, now immigration reform! http://bit.ly/17jJle

Jun 27 2009 3:18pm

Is Iran blaming Obama for meddling even when he didn't an argument for meddling? what good could we really have effected? http://bit.ly/Cy1r

Jun 27 2009 3:11pm

(Link for prev: http://bit.ly/MXCpx)

Jun 27 2009 3:07pm

The NYT mourns "the end of true superstardom" with MJ's death and passing of monolithic/MTV/pre-'net pop culture. I think we'll survive.

Jun 27 2009 3:07pm

Hoyer y'day: #ACES isn't about taxes, it's about getting rid of the tax by "foreign potentates" thru foreign oil prices. http://bit.ly/XqB5t

Jun 27 2009 11:59am

Jun 26 2009 11:23pm

Iraq Predictions

Andrew writes:

There has been no "victory" in Iraq.

After three years of total fiasco, there has been a competent counter-insurgency operation with 130,000 foreign troops. In that time, the critical political deals that were the criteria for the surge's alleged success were not made. Now, Maliki is bragging about throwing the Americans out, and looks as if he's slowly acquiring the trappings of a Shiite tough guy. The Sunni resistance - not integrated into the security forces - will no doubt respond. The neocons will blame Obama; and he will either have to hunker down and face betrayal of the core reason for his candidacy or get out and watch the place explode again.

Of course, I hope I'm proven wrong in this gloomy prognosis (and I was proven wrong in under-estimating the capacity of Petraeus to restore minimal order in 2007). But Iraq - like so much else - is yet another albatross bequeathed by Bush-Cheney, strangling American tax-payers and presidents for years to come.

Via Greg Mankiw: with tons of money you can make more money. Duh. What to do with a $3bn loan. http://bit.ly/1ZnqX

Jun 26 2009 7:38pm

Just turned on c-span, Waxman using fancy parliamentary language to tell Boehner "shut the f up"

Jun 26 2009 5:52pm

[retweet] @climatebill: It's scary how united the Rs are. They must get memos every morning. They all echo each other perfectly. No orig thought.

Jun 26 2009 3:29pm

Thriller http://www.lala.com/#album/504684633533791458

Jun 26 2009 10:37am

What's the sociological concept of a group's specialized lingo acting as a barrier to entry? Example w/ govt contracts http://bit.ly/n0rzy

Jun 25 2009 11:07pm

MUST HAVE. Doh! http://bit.ly/CFMEn

Jun 25 2009 2:43pm

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