Puffin’s Place

I swore to myself that I would stay out of the Gates/Cambridge flap, but I cannot resist posting a hurrah to Christopher Hitchens when he says:
It is monstrous in the extreme that he should in that home be handcuffed, and then taken downtown, after it had been plainly established that he was indeed the [...]

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I don’t know which bit of news scares me the most: stories about Lou Dobbs and other “birthers” who want to pretend that President Obama is not a legitimate President or a, ironically, civil rights group commanding CNN to fire Lou Dobbs because:
As he has in several other instances, Mr. Dobbs, in taking up [...]

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I am about decided that the U.S. is too immature to govern itself, no matter who is President.
Consider what claims national attention:
• Obama’s jeans
• Michelle’s hair
• The weight of the new Surgeon General
• Whether Martha Stewart prefers Twitter of Facebook
• Media mavens and mavi fogging about the President’s birth certificate
• Racist observations and acts by [...]

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Well, well, so CNN’s avid news hounds have tracked down Michelle Obama’s forebears’ slave hovel.
Now I call that news! I am miffed that we didn’t know the grandparents’ home of Hillary Clinton or the great aunt’s cabin of Bess Truman. And I think with great satisfaction that when I am famous, CNN will [...]

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Why does the media find it impossible to ignore Sarah Palin? Their assiduous attention to her makes me wonder whether I could call a press conference every few days and babble incoherently into a mic and be “rewarded” with wall-to-wall coverage.
How about, media mavens, dealing with important news and skipping the political writhings of the [...]

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Scrap the above. Seems the feds have no interest in SP. Almost like the rest of the world.

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Intrigued by Palin’s resignation? Check out some speculation about the genesis of this act at the Brad Blog.

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