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Crashing Andrew Sullivan’s Anniversary Party

October 11, 2010 | Comment

As of today, Andrew Sullivan’s blog The Daily Dish is ten years old. His assistants/staffers/co-conspirators/whatever they are have solicited contributions from a host of prominent bloggers, inviting them to “Toast or Roast” their boss. Needless to say, I did not hear from them. No hard feelings, of course — given my lack of attention to SEO and the (in)frequency with which I post, I am sanguine about being (to paraphrase Triumph) a prominent obscure blogger. So here’s my unsolicited Toast or Roast post, for whatever it is worth, a few bucks at most. (Yes, I will stop that.)

One need have only the slightest awareness of the worldwide web’s developmentally hyper-accelerated nature to appreciate how remarkable it is for any web site to have remained in place for a decade. Still more remarkable is for that site to be a blog, one which speaks in the same voice on the same subjects as it did ten years ago. Yet while Sullivan’s voice maintains its distinctive tone and timbre, Read the rest of this entry »


Be Like Sarah

April 16, 2010 | Permalink

sarah's-choiceGod loves babies, and the women they rode in on. Pure and simple. Too simple, as a matter of fact.

Andrew Sullivan included this image earlier today in a post titled “The Cult of Palin”:

The core and calculated meme behind her appeal to the Christianist base — allegedly carrying a child to term when others might not — is already being propagated.

I’m not sure why he says “already,” since they’ve been trumpeting about this for quite awhile. Nevertheless, the point stands: they’re lionizing Palin for carrying to term a Down’s Syndrome child when she was 44 rather than having an abortion. That was the choice she made.

Which is exactly the point: it was a choice. And look, now they’re even using the c-word in the title of their little straight-to-video propaganda movies. Read the rest of this entry »


Top Ten Videos of 2009: 9. “Olivet Pong Shots”

December 14, 2009 | Permalink

When I was in college the ubiquitous drinking game at parties was quarters. These days, from what I hear, it’s all about beer pong—which brings us to number nine on my the top ten video clips of 2009, a little something called “Olivet Pong Shots.”

The video went viral back in early May. It was linked to by media outlets including The New York Times, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, popular bloggers like Andrew Sullivan, and to date has racked up more than half a million hits on YouTube. Read the rest of this entry »


Why Obama, You Ask?

January 23, 2008 | 3 comments

Conveniently for me, South Carolina’s The State has stated in their endorsement of Barack Obama the exact reason that I support him:

due credit: Andrew Sullivan

On positions from Iraq to health care, the policy differences between Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama are minute… The one most significant difference between them can be found in how they would approach the presidency – and how the nation might respond.

…[We] have a good idea what a Clinton presidency would look like. The restoration of the Clintons to the White House would trigger a new wave of all-out political warfare. That is not all Bill and Hillary’s fault – but it exists, whomever you blame, and cannot be ignored. Hillary Clinton doesn’t pretend that it won’t happen; she simply vows to persevere, in the hope that her side can win. Indeed, the Clintons’ joint career in public life seems oriented toward securing victory and personal vindication. Read the rest of this entry »


Making the Olympics Less Olympian

June 6, 2007 | Permalink

(via Andrew Sullivan)

hideous-logo

Who are the marketing geniuses behind this atrocity? Culprit(s) aside, The Valve has a few interpretive musings:

This is a logo that is saying ‘come to the London Olympics in 2012! It’ll be a wonderful experience, not unlike Lisa Simpson fellating a stranger!’


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