This is how to speak truth to power.

The Dodgers might have won the division but the LA Times has printed an editorial that hits it into the parking lot. Required reading, sports fans, not for those of us brain-addled junkies, but for the Obama camp as well. A sample:
“Ineptitude led to crisis; crisis then became the argument for the radical […]

People are impatient for Obama to garotte McCain while Elric 7 reminds us ain’t no Crakerstani gonna vote for no nigger, yo, so I ask, if

Obama needs avoiding inflaming congenital Crackerstani ooga-booganism and
John McCain is that crazy batchelor great uncle with a gambling problem who becomes more publicly embarrassing as he gets older and angrier
why […]

Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire reports,
A new USA Today/Gallup Poll shows 46% of people who watched Friday night’s presidential debate say Sen. Barack Obama did a better job than Sen. John McCain; 34% said McCain did better.
Again I am moved to think about what this means. Political junkies tend to see politics as a fight club and are […]

This could be the strangest debate of all time. That is if Palin’s still the Pug VP nominee. I think the bar is so low it could be a trap for Biden. She’s a manipulative, competitive cuss. An unflinching liar, too, which makes her dangerous. On the other hand there […]

One of the leitmotifs among the commentariat today revolves around Obama’s performance in the debate that most disappointed me is:
Given the extraordinary timing and circumstances: Given an active negotiation to use $700B to bailout the perpetrators of an economic philosophy that is an abject failure; given a demonstrably lying, nasty sack of crap as an […]

Paul Newman, one of the special people who have graced this planet, has gone on to the place where all good hustlers go in the end, to the great pool hall in the sky.
A personal note, if I may: My connection to Paul Newman was through the foundation he set up after his son died of a heroin […]

Not everybody in Alaska thinks Sarah represents them.
In fact quite a few don’t. The account of how the rally came into being and the harassment the organizers received is worth a read.

Even after diminishing my expectations that Sarah Palin’s partner would turn beet red and physically attack Obama with his pen, how anticlimactic was the anticlimax?
Which means Obama won. Rube that I am, I damn Obama for not goading Sarah Palin’s partner into the raving and lunatic explosion of anger and - I’m serious - psychopathic […]

It’s a good analysis of MCain, the debate, the past week and the McCain brand. It’s also very funny. (As a writer, I greatly appreciate the skill of anyone who can write like this in short order after the debate last night to make a publishing deadline for this morning’s paper.)