Denver Debauchery With just 10 days until the Democratic National Convention kicks off. The media is salivating over every scheduling change and RSVP. The Obama camp has decided to let Hillary Clinton’s name be added into the mix to appease the legions of Clintonites who won’t quit ’til their gal has a fair shot at clinching [...]
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Maybe McCain DOES get the Internet: The Los Angeles Times blog Webscout is reporting that on the site Digg “in the last 30 days, at least 28 stories critical of GOP Sen. John McCain have been mysteriously “buried”— meaning enough Digg users have voted against a story that the submission may no longer [...]
Are the polls missing the (sub) text? Torey Van Oot poses the cell phone and polls question.
Is Evan Bayh Obama’s VP pick?
And now…make-up sex: After 140 years of sleeping on the couch in Black America, the House of Representatives has issued a formal apology for “the institution of slavery, and the subsequent Jim Crow laws that for years discriminated against blacks as second-class citizens in American society,” NPR reports. As the Washington Post points out, though, [...]
Gallup Daily: Obama 49%, McCain 40%
Now, what was that about Obama not being able to close the gap?
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The Grassy Knol: Google is flipping the bird to Wikipedia this week by launching their own collaborative web encyclopedia, dubbed “Knol“. They define a knol as a “unit of knowledge” but the real jab is how they describe individual articles: “an authoritative article about a specific topic.” [emhpasis added] Rather than opening a topic up [...]
Despite the vacant language of McCain’s op-ed submission to the New York Times (in response to the one on Iraq policy by Obama published last week), and despite the very amicable language of the email explanation to the McCain campaign by the Times’ op-ed page editor, the bastion of US print reporting didn’t do itself [...]
P+P contributor and Annenberg graduate Hanna Ingber Win continues her examination of the candidates and the Iraqi refugee situation for the Huffington Post’s Off the Bus. This is her latest entry.
Every couple of weeks an email from Baghdad pops up in Iraq War veteran Joey Coon’s inbox at his home in Washington, D.C. It’s Coon’s [...]
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 [...]
Cheap Thrills: Obama’s Texting Blitz From an Ad Girl’s Perspective
Bush Plays Beach Volleyball While the Post-American World Burns. Max Zimbert takes him to task.
Obama’s Looking to be the ‘Text’ President. Torey Van Oot dissects the strategy.
Plagiarism: Does the Medium Define the Word? Chris Nelson poses the question to some people with answers.
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Britney, Russell Brand, and the elephant in the room. 
Shazia Haq: The Boredom’s Are Anything But Boring
From Shaft to Chef, we bid adieu to Isaac Hayes, cool before cool was cool.
Tricia Romano muses on her time spent watching the late Bernie Mac, and how he got her through a self-imposed social exile.
Geek Love: I am an GTD Geek, Hear Me Roar.
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