Hard to believe there isn't even one journalist who remembers the pre-internet print days fondly enough to jump on "Colom Inches Ahead" as a headline ...
We're all too tired to think about 2028 yet but a fun thing to ponder is what exactly the GOP path to an Electoral College majority would be without Texas, because there isn't one. ...
This country sent one clear, unambiguous message on Tuesday: it hates the fuckin Cheesecake Factory ...
An underrated factor in the muted, sullen, pouting response to last night's humiliation from a lot of the loudest right wing voices on social media is they are all gambling addicts now and were quietly absorbing how much money they just lost.
People have considerably less enthusiasm for entertaining their superiors with a big show of hysterics about "Stop the Steal" after they just lost six months of rent on Ken Paxton. ...
Ed says:
This has the tone that people should somehow be appalled that he is not part of the Washington insider crowd.
It's much in the same way that a writer would goad his audience in a story about a botched surgery by revealing that the surgeon hadn't graduated med school.
"Can you believe that??? He DOESN'T HANG OUT AT THE CAPITOL GRILLE!!"
I look at about 90% of the political magazines in the world and say "Who fucking pays to subscribe to this?" The New Republic is one of them.
Ed 2.0 says:
I read the New Republic–every week.
No publication covers Congress as well. Its cover story on immigration several weeks ago was the best story I've read since some other TNR story. Maybe only the Atlantic Monthly has so much excellent writing on unusual topics.
TNR swings for the fences. It misses on occasion. But the bad articles are not memorable. The best articles change the way I think.