After all that build-up, Hurricane Gustav has come and gone, leaving huge swathes of power outages and a big ol’ mess for returning evacuees to clean up, but no broken levees or national disaster areas. While people begin making their way back to that part of the waterfront, Gustav’s sister Hanna is heading ominously toward [...]
Add Comment G8 or bust.
The United States refused to accept global emissions targets in Bush’s final G8 summit as president. That means the administration will simply let this issue slither onto its heir. Three cheers for all! As he prepared to leave the G8 summit in Japan Thursday, Bush told fellow world leaders: “Goodbye, from the world’s [...]
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.
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Here at P+P, we are constantly re-thinking the best ways to organize content and deliver a reading experience outside the punditry and beltway-blogger echo chamber. As such, we’d like to offer up a new permanent Monday fixture that will throw out some hand-picked stories from the weekend for your reading pleasure, along with some [...]
Overheard: an historic walking tour of a “post-racial” French Quarter in a Bush Dynasty’s future America.
Not to be glib and hold forth on the obvious and feed blogger stereotypes but, c’mon, this week marks five years of Operation Quagmire, which means there are people whose entire college or high school years have been marked by this war, which has meant death, disfigurement, lies, the politics of fear, and our bungling [...]
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While you were voting, phone banking, mastering delegate math or dodging a killer tornado in the Midwest, the Bush administration was busy finally admitting to and condoning torture.
CIA Director Michael Hayden chose stormy distracting Super Tuesday to concede for the record that the CIA used waterboarding to extract information from three Al Qaeda suspects. “In [...]
The side-splitting routines Bush has been delivering in the absence of fresh TV comedy.
News shocker: most of the federal money sent to help folks in Mississippi has gone to relatively affluent residents and big business. According to the New York Times, the Bush Administration waived a rule mandating that 50 percent of all federal disaster relief grants go to low-income programs.
Mississippi officials told the Times that they do [...]
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Apparently childrens don’t learn.
Oh Georgie, you’re going to be leaving soon—why don’t you just make it easier on us? By choosing to veto the reauthorization of S-CHIP, or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, Pappa Bush probably jumped into the deepest hole since he said people “misunderestimated me,” or I don’t know since maybe [...]
Therapists and brain people know all about denial. They say we deny because we have to, that we’re forced into petty lies and cowardly evasions by genetics, by biological construction and the chemical flows of the head. Really, it’s true. And I did not have… sex with that woman, whoever she is, whatever they say. [...]
“Mistakes were made!” (But not by me.) How The Decider is a special kind of Denier.
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bzzt
crackle
Good evening
The fight against terror
A new strategy for safety at home
Commitment of 21,500 additional troops
Victory for liberty and peace in the middle east!
My fellow Americans
God bless
[Beyond the teleprompter applause rises then laughter then weeping]
For those of you who didn’t plow through the New York Times this sunday—a fading ambivalent ritual akin to family dinners—the magazine cover story by Paul Tough tackled the continuing education gap that separates, basically, white kids from black and latino kids in the U.S. The upshot is that Bush is right: it is possible [...]
(via Boing Boing) Chirag Mehta created a tag cloud (like the one for our site below right) that illustrates the words presidents use in their speeches as a way to measure which issues the presidents deemed important (or which issues they thought would win them the most support).
Not surprisingly, words like “crime” “deficit” and [...]
Mark Evitt discusses this week’s resurgence of the good old liberal media bias at the RNC.
Tricia Romano has yet to find Bigfoot, alien life, or The Lochness Monster, but she did speak with a gay Republican.
Missed some of our DNC coverage? We corral every last post for you here, plus a heads-up on forthcoming RNC coverage.
Chapters 2 and 3 of P+P founder Farai Chideya’s book “Trust” now available; mash it up as you please under a Creative Commons license.
Tricia Romano remembers the failed mayoral bid of Mark Green.
Chris Nelson weighs in on Obama’s candidacy, the punditry poison, and the speech from Invesco Field.
Max Zimbert interviews some political heavyweights on the Dem’s chances in Ohio and Iowa.
The P+P crew gives a Cribs-style walk-through of their sick DNC digs.
Torey Van Oot gets ex-Fugee Wyclef Jean to share his thoughts on courting the Latino vote for Obama.
Brooke-Sidney Gavins gets RZA of the Wu-Tang to open up about the DNC and the election.
Previously on Lost…the musical version. Mark Evitt tells you how to feed your Lost addiction.
Gabrielle Chua knows who Chris Berz is. Do you? (hint: 18-year-old hip-hopper with old-school flair)
If you’ve ever been de-friended on Facebook, you can certainly identify with the depths of despair Chris Nelson experiences…
Tara Graham breaks down the new documentary “American Teen” and laments why it gets trounced at the box office by a bunny.
Britney, Russell Brand, and the elephant in the room. 
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