Campaign letters are always at least a little comic — the faux-personal tone, the formal-informal style, the beggarliness. There are also the “artful” decisions made by the authors that are fun to explore for hidden meanings.
A recent Hillary dispatch to her supporters is a gem. Her campaign is over, the thrill of future campaign-related possibilities [...]

Newsflash: taxpayer dollars and government resources hard at work squandering political capital in the Middle East. Ho hum.

While everyone remains trigger happy about a ruling that just means that Fred Thompson and Robert Byrd can now have a pistol duel on the Capitol steps that would make Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr feel like the morons from L’Executer, the Supreme Court made an even bigger doozy this morning.
Exxon Valdez now must pay [...]

The mecca of youth culture is opening its airwaves to a different kind of advertising.
Sandwiched between ads for Trojan brand condoms and the newest albums, loyal MTV viewers will now be inundated with the flood of campaign ads leading up to the November election.
It’s the first time the network has decided to accept political [...]

Six years ago, Brazilian singer Caetano Velosa penned of the most haunting songs about Haiti ever written, “And no matter if the eyes of the world may be for a moment turned off,” he pleaded, “Think of Haiti, pray for Haiti. Haiti is not here.”
And it won’t be here anytime soon.
Over $54 million in loans [...]

If you’re not into updating your Entourage or throwing vampires, the only real thing to do on Facebook is to check out your friend’s profiles. You know… read their updates, comment on their photos, peruse their walls.
So about a year ago, I was scanning a family member’s MySpace page and came across [...]

You may have noticed a few changes here and there at Pop + Politics.  Some cosmetic, some added functionality.  A lot have taken place on the backend without you even noticing.
We appreciate your patience if the flow of content is not always constant as a result of the changes being made, but rest-assured, everything is [...]

The NY Times buried the story this afternoon. Maybe they were busy getting wiretapped on the phone.
After close to a year of in-house cock fighting, the House passed a bill today that will listen into your cavernous soul. Or something similar.
The outdated and now unfabulously updated FISA bill, passing 293 to 129, with near-unanimous support [...]

Digging back into the past can be scary, but it can also be a massive relief when you look at how far you’ve come.

For some reason, I think I find this funnier than most. Funny also that this is really the only kind of media attention that G-Dub is getting these days.

11.4 million people in the world are refugees with an additional 26 million internally displaced within their own country, according to a new United Nations statistic released today in preparation for June 20, World Refugee Day.
Add those numbers together and that’s more than the entire population of California lacking a home or access to basic [...]

The first image above is a button that was on sale at the Texas GOP Convention.  According to Politico’s Ben Smith:  “The speakers were generally respectful of Obama, the Dallas Morning News reports, but this is the sort of stuff that the RNC has been warning state parties about for months.”
From P+P contributor Ryan [...]

Crooks & Liars has done a bang-up job detailing no less than 10 major flip flops on the part of one John McCain and his crack team of campaign strategists in the past three weeks.
Just like the YouTube video that surfaced not too long ago, when is the man going to learn that everything [...]

Just when you feel as though you are getting to know a place, when you start to feel at home in a strange environment, something grabs you and forces the question “Where the hell am I?”  These are just a few observations from the past few weeks that served as little personal culture clashes while [...]

The question has finally wafted over to CNN – is Barack Obama Black or Biracial?
Biologically, White parent + Black parent = Biracial.
But culturally, it’s a different issue altogether. An issue that plays itself out both within the Black and White community.
Inside the Black community, I think there’s a simultaneous and seemingly illogical embrace and sharp [...]