I went on the record this afternoon (via twitter) that I thought that Palin would not perform too poorly tonight; the Republicans shrewdly negotiated the 90 second short response format to cover Palin’s inability to respond substantively under even minimally persistent questioning. I only caught the last half of the debate, and she seemed […]
Late-blogging the Veep Debate.
October 2nd, 2008 · by John · 12 Comments
Tags: Politics
Spark: Sinfest gets Political
October 2nd, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments
I’ve long been a fan of Sinfest, but it’s mostly been religious, rather than political in nature. Recently, since one of the characters is a pig, there was a whole Palin lip-stick-on-pig thing that I’m still not sure what I think about. But then there were these, which are interesting more because Sinfest is not […]
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Book Meme!
October 2nd, 2008 · by xJane · 5 Comments
I just read this, so I didn’t really get tagged, but I hereby tag: John, G, wren, Brian (who I can’t link to), & Cobwebs. Feel free to link to your own (whether I tagged you or not) in the comments
1. One book that made you laugh: I, Lucifer, by Glen Duncan. DH […]
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Twenty Best Tweets from September 2008
October 2nd, 2008 · by John · 3 Comments
The list is rather arbitrary–I think I had well over a hundred tweets, and I whittled them down to the following. Micro-blogging has been my latest experiment, and I know that some of the creative energy I typically expend on Mind on Fire. I’m going to try to redirect some of that back […]
