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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So Obama is going to toss a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Stillwell riots. Hmm. That’s about like intoning, “Some of my best friends are gay” while festooning the White House with rainbow tissue paper.
It’s easy. Creates no discord or risk. Puts one on the side of the angels without risk of having [...]

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