End fear, stop chase for campaign cash

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33538.html

How to Feed the World: Monsanto vs. Michael Pollan

http://www.aldenteblog.com/2010/02/how-to-feed-the-world-monsanto-vs-michael-pollan.html

National Journal's Vote Rankings: The Top 10....by ideology

http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/02/national_journa_17.php

When politics actually works....

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/02/18/us/AP-US-Klamath-Dams.html?ref=aponline

This was a big part of the recent Cheney bio.....

Booking a Flight the Frugal Way

http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/click-it-and-ticket-booking-a-flight-the-frugal-way/?em

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/travel/21Prac.html?em

B Roll.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SItFvB0Upb8

In Afghanistan...... "One Tribe at a Time"

http://blog.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/one-tribe-at-a-time-4-the-full-document-at-last/

How to fix NFL overtime...

From Bill Simmons Super Bowl diary:

"9:25: Two straight first-down throws. Suddenly we're on the Saints' 36. I remember thinking, "Great, they'll tie it, then whichever teams wins the coin toss will march down and score, and we'll have to hear about how to fix overtime for the next nine months. Shoot me."

(FYI: I know how to fix it. Win the toss and score a touchdown, game over. Make a field goal on the opening drive and the opponent gets one possession of its own. From there, sudden death rules. Find a hole in that idea. You can't.)

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100208&sportCat=nfl

Electric bikes

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/business/global/01ebike.html?hp

Game Change

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704022804575041280125257648.html

So they just THINK they're smarter, but not really.....

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YmE5MWYxZGMyYmU0NDE5Mjg4OGJjMWM2OWQ0OTBhOTI=

This one's for Al Dale.....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020403698.html

And this one's for Katie Allen....

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YmEzOTIzOTZjNDQ4NThhMTA2ODcwZWM3NmQ2NWE0NGY=

Does this mean we can finally forget MASH?

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/02/08/arts/AP-US-Super-Bowl-Ratings.html?ref=aponline

pretty funny guy....

http://www.salon.com/news/race/index.html?story=/ent/tv/feature/2010/02/05/nbc_black_history

All you need to know about Salon readers

http://letters.salon.com/mwt/feature/2010/02/06/super_bowl_valentine_open2010/view/?show=all

I know a lot of women who need this book.....

http://www.salon.com/books/nonfiction/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2010/02/07/lori_gottlieb

A truly reasonable column on the deficit

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/07/AR2010020701785.html

Grateful Dead song tracker / lyric finder

http://www.whitegum.com/intro.htm

Gov't workers should not be allowed to vote? Thought-provoking.

http://www.johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/USPolitics/disenfranchisepublicsector.html#banner

Keynes v. Hayek rap video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk

Groundhog Day!

http://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/goldberg200602020835.asp

When the Museum of Modern Art in New York debuted a film series on "The Hidden God: Film and Faith" two years ago, it opened with Groundhog Day. The rest of the films were drawn from the ranks of turgid and bleak intellectual cinema, including standards from Ingmar Bergman and Roberto Rossellini. According to the New York Times, curators of the series were stunned to discover that so many of the 35 leading literary and religious scholars who had been polled to pick the series entries had chosen Groundhog Day that a spat had broken out among the scholars over who would get to write about the film for the catalogue. In a wonderful essay for the Christian magazine Touchstone, theology professor Michael P. Foley wrote that Groundhog Day is "a stunning allegory of moral, intellectual, and even religious excellence in the face of postmodern decay, a sort of Christian-Aristotelian Pilgrim's Progress for those lost in the contemporary cosmos." Charles Murray, author of Human Accomplishment, has cited Groundhog Day more than once as one of the few cultural achievements of recent times that will be remembered centuries from now. He was quoted in The New Yorker declaring, "It is a brilliant moral fable offering an Aristotelian view of the world."

Massachusetts Miracle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nEoW-P81-0

Great political ad.

Does the Bill of Rights apply to foreigners?

http://www.salon.com/news/susan_m_collins/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2010/02/01/collins

How to set up a stage for a talk show

http://www.slate.com/id/2242937/

On Politically Incorrect, host Bill Maher sat between rival guests—a setup that emphasized his role as moderator and the importance of argument among ideological opposites.

Moscow McD's

"The Pushkin Square McDonald's is still the busiest in the world, company officials said."

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/02/01/business/AP-EU-Russia-McDonalds.html

If corporate advertising was irresistible, after all, we’d all be drinking New Coke.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/01/31/candidates_campaigns_and_new_coke/

If corporate advertising was irresistible, after all, we’d all be drinking New Coke.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/01/31/candidates_campaigns_and_new_coke/

High Spped Rail

"Proponents also claim that high-speed rail is profitable, but this too is off the mark. Internationally, only two segments have ever broken even: Tokyo to Osaka and Paris to Lyon."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703389004575033672230734364.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion

Frank Rich on Patriotism

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/NYT-John-McCain-is-the-unpatriotic-opposition-83194492.html

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A Quote that Could Launch a Thousand Columns [Jonah Goldberg]

From the end of Aram Bakshian's review of The Politician (italics in the original):

We are reminded by Mr. Young that one of Mr. Edwards's early boosters was the late Ted Kennedy, who "saw almost unlimited potential in this young, energetic, well-spoken, good-looking Southerner." In a conversation with Mr. Young, Mr. Kennedy waxed sentimental about Washington in the early 1960s: "It used to be civilized. The media was on our side. We'd get our work done by one o'clock and by two we were at the White House chasing women. We got the job done, and the reporters focused on the issues. . . . It was civilized." We now know that Mr. Edwards's idea of civilization was much the same as Kennedy's.

Great campaign ad?

http://www.propublica.org/article/craziest-campaign-ad-ever-129

I couldn't agree more.....

http://www.aldenteblog.com/2010/01/dining-out-restaurants-le-cirque.html

Politics in the US should be NO ONE'S "life work"........

"But Democrats in Congress are replying, as politicians are wont to do when challenged by party wingers, that their name is on the ballot. New York Times editorialists can opine that the Massachusetts result had nothing to do with opposition to health care, but their life's work is not in peril."

Politics in the US should be NO ONE'S "life work"........

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Democrats-fall-as-fast-as-Nixon-Republicans-in-1974-82731837.html#ixzz0eIEtyMBu

Hmmm.....shades of 1994?

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/01/pelosi-children-and-grandchildren-get.html