The FOX News – MSNBC Taste Test : Conclusions
So now I have sat through six hours of cable-news TV shows, three hours with FOXNews and three with MSNBC. After all of it, what exactly have I learned? (Other that this experience is...
Author: Tod Kelly
The FOX News – MSNBC Taste Test : Part II
Last week I decided to live-blog the primetime hours of both FOXNews and MSNBC so that I could decide for myself if each is as much of a group of hacks as their opponents...
Everybody Loses In Wisconsin
Yesterday the good people of Wisconsin went to the voting booths and struck a blow for liberty, bravely ushering in a brand new era of prosperity while sending a powerful message to Washington and...
The FOX News – MSNBC Taste Test : A Non-Scientific Tape-Delayed Live-Blogged Inquiry
Over the past few months I have been talking here and there about the state of today’s journalism, which I often find worrisome. I find broadcast journalism to be especially troubling. Whenever I have...
Weekend Reading : The Meme Generation
A hat tip to Andrew Sullivan who brought Matt Labash’s fabulous article The Meme Generation to my attention.* It’s one of those “Damn, I wish I’d written this!” kind articles, where Labash went to...
Mindless Diversion Bait : ‘Indie Game’ Trailer
I think I’m the only contributor at the League that isn’t a gamer. Given a few hours on a Saturday evening, there are approximately 1,000 things I would choose to do before sitting down...
Everything I Simultaneously Love And Hate About American Politics In One Short YouTube Video
I’m not sure which part of this I find the most simultaneously entertaining and depressing:
Brooks, Broder & the Illusion of Right-Left Political Spectrum
There are many things that confuse me about the liberal blogosphere. (e.g.: Why is it that even when you’re in power you seem to think the end of the world is nigh?) But the...
Kids, when I was your age New Jersey was the state we all laughed at. – or – Sheesh Erik, what is it with you guys down there?
For all of those righties that claim birtherism is a made-up issue by liberals because it’s only proponents are far-right crazy wing-nuts that in no way represent the GOP, it is with great pleasure...
Sex Scandal Extravaganza!!!
Over the weekend I posted the argument that unlike with other elected officials, in today’s modern media world we tend to pick presidents based more on “likability” than qualifications, experience or record. My Jumping-Off-Point...
Tebow vs. Tebow™: Because 5 months without a Tebow post is too long, dammit!
It appears that Tim Tebow and his legal team are about to file a lawsuit against Cubby Tees, a tee shirt manufacturer. Cubby Tees, in an obvious attempt to cash in on the buzz...
How Gary Hart Taught Me that Obama Will Win in November
You don’t vote for Presidents for the reasons you think you do.
Radio Free Europe: In Which the Good People of the Netherlands Turn My Post Into a Radio Program
Last December on the day after my birthday, I received an email from Netherlands public radio. One of the producers there had come across a post of mine. “I wanted to make contact with...
Are People Googling My Moobs?
I like to keep tabs with how the site is doing in terms of traffic; not just the volume of our traffic, but where it’s coming from. As we try to grow the site,...
Talk to Me Like I’m Stupid : Natural Law Edition
I’d like to ask a favor of my fellow Leaguers, especially the ones that know more about philosophy than I do, (i.e.: everybody). I’d like to apologize to TNC for stealing his titular phrase...
I Am Mitt Romney
In the middle of my sophomore year in high school, my father was transferred from Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon. This transfer was at my parents request. They were just starting to look...
It’s Time to Do This Thing
And now finally, after so many years, maybe we can finally just have it out. For the past decade, the professional right has succeeded in the neat parlor trick of stoking anti-gay sentiment to...
It’s likely you’ve already seen this….
but maybe you haven’t. And even if you have, if you’re like me you could watch this over and over and still find it hilarious every time.
A Capitalist’s Love Ballad to Bankruptcy
In Burt’s recent FP post, he takes a hypothetical bankruptcy scenario posed by Randy Harris and teases out the personal and professional ethics of the fictional players. If you haven’t read it yet, you...
Jonah Goldberg’s Very Small Penis : How One NRO Correspondent Plans to Kill Your Children, Eat Your Puppies & Sodomize Your Kittens
I should probably start off by saying that as far as I know Jonah Goldberg has a fine and average sized (or bigger!) penis, and that to my knowledge he has never advocated any...
